The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

by Onno van der Hart

2000). This dissociation involves the coexistence of and alternation between a so-called Apparently Normal [Part of the] Personality (ANP) and a so-called Emotional [Part of the] Personality (EP). Throughout the book we will refer to these prototypical parts as ANP and EP. Survivors as ANP are fixated in trying to go on with normal life, thus are directed by action systems for daily life (e.g., exploration, caretaking, attachment), while avoiding traumatic memories. As EP, they are fixated in the action system (e.g., defense, sexuality) or subsystems (e.g., hypervigilance, flight, fight) that were activated at the time of traumatization.

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