A response to LaFarge

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1. I thank Philip Blumberg Ph.D. for thoughtful editorial assistance.

Notes

1. I thank Philip Blumberg Ph.D. for thoughtful editorial assistance.

2. I note but cannot address here the long‐standing controversy over whether theory really does affect practice. Suffice it to say for the present purpose that I believe it does.

3. That which is dissociated, however, is not understood by me or by Bromberg to be the affect itself, or even the memory, but an aspect of identity. Remember that a self‐state is defined according to the experience that can be formulated from within it. A dissociated state of being, then, is dissociated precisely in order to prevent the person who could formulate the experience from existing: I cannot, must not be the person who experiences x.