overdetachment

overdetachment

English

Etymology

over- +‎ detachment

Noun

overdetachment (uncountable)

1. excessive emotional detachment
   • 2002, Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends (page 50)

     Overdetachment is a serious character flaw that cripples any possibility for intimacy.

   • 2004, Janis McLarren Caldwell, Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain (page 153)

     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 […]