overdetachment
nounEtymology From over- + detachment.
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excessive emotional detachment
- Overdetachment is a serious character flaw that cripples any possibility for intimacy.2002, Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends, page 50:
- The process of overdetachment may not stop at the failure to see the patient as a person but may go on to the unconscious fantasy that the best patient is one who is completely passive and submissive […]2004, Janis McLarren Caldwell, Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain, page 153: