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An interdisciplinary approach to understanding collective dissociation that integrates scientific methods with humanistic perspectives—drawing on history, literature, philosophy, and the arts alongside social science. The scientific human theory of collective dissociation recognizes that dissociation involves not just measurable behaviors but meaning, narrative, identity, and value—dimensions that require humanistic as well as scientific understanding. It uses historical analysis to trace how dissociative narratives develop; literary criticism to understand how stories encode and enforce dissociation; philosophical inquiry to examine the ethical implications of collective denial; artistic expression to access dimensions of experience that quantitative methods miss. This approach treats collective dissociation as a human phenomenon in the fullest sense—something that demands both scientific rigor and humanistic depth, both explanation and interpretation, both data and meaning.
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