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noun
An overadaptation in response to a traumatic event entailing needs and wants being succumbed to those of the threat actor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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History
Coined by American psychotherapist Pete Walker in 2009, defining a fourth typology of responses to post-trauma stress in addition to fight, flight, and freeze.
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