Meaning of self-interruption | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of self-interrupting.

Examples

“Self-interruption often shows in the form of various tensions through which clients attempt to limit potential felt-upset. They are literally tensing to brace themselves for the impact of the feared trigger or upsetting experience. Sometimes self-interruption appears in the context of other tasks, particularly empty chair tasks, in which clients engage in a dialogue with an imagined, significant other and are unable to stay with, or express, a particular experience out of the fear of the experience or the other’s imagined response.”

“What emotional self-interruptions do through affective means, manipulative self-interruptions achieve through suggesting missing logical connections whether accurate or fallacious.”

“A further interesting point was that when an individual experiences an external interruption in the preceding hours they significantly increase their chances of initiating a self-interruption in the subsequent hour.”

“When trying to do focused work, studies show that self-interruptions occur at nearly the same frequency as external interruptions, except that we are less aware of them - a sign that we are acting on autopilot.”

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