The Seba library treats Compartmentalization in 8 passages, across 5 authors (including Ogden, Pat, Horney, Karen, Victor Turner, Victor Witter Turner).
the compartmentalization of the relationships between encapsulated action tendencies—a compartmentalization that reflects the repetitive activation of biphasic alternations between action systems
Ogden defines compartmentalization as the structural sequestration of unintegrated action tendencies in trauma, explicitly framing it as a theoretical construct describing process rather than discrete psychic entities.
, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, 2006thesis
even when her arousal level was within the window of tolerance, her unintegrated traumatic experience remained compartmentalized, or dissociated, from her awareness
Ogden treats compartmentalization as synonymous with dissociation — the persistent sequestration of traumatic experience from conscious awareness even during periods of relative functional stability.
, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, 2006thesis
Neurotic conflicts, attempts at solving, 20, 172; in childhood, 19; and central inner conflicts, 113; through compartmentalization, 185, 190
Horney catalogues compartmentalization as one of the primary neurotic strategies for managing central inner conflicts, positioning it within a broader taxonomy of self-evasive maneuvers.
, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization, 1950thesis
Boundless, unilateral love of every kind flooded over the usual compartmentalization and indifference among sepa-
Turner employs compartmentalization affirmatively as a descriptor for the ordinary social partition of emotional registers that ritual liminality dissolves, suggesting the concept also applies to the structural organization of collective life.
, The Ritual Process Structure and Anti-Structure, 1966supporting
By continuing to use psychic compartmentalization, Rank created difficulties for himself: the will, a freely choosing agency, is described as an ‘ego impulse’
Yalom identifies compartmentalization as an epistemological liability within Rank’s own theoretical architecture, arguing that dividing the psyche into discrete hydraulic regions generates conceptual incoherence about the nature of will.
, Existential Psychotherapy, 1980supporting
Internal coherence and collaboration are always goals in therapy, whether clients have trauma-related dissociatively compartmentalized parts, not-me self-states, or simply mixed emotions.
Ogden places dissociatively compartmentalized parts on a continuum with ordinary self-state conflict, framing therapeutic integration as the universal corrective to compartmentalization across severity levels.
, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Interventions for Trauma and, 2015supporting
compartmentalization, morality and, 355
The index entry positions compartmentalization as a moral-philosophical concern within the political-ethical framework of the volume, linking psychic division to questions of moral accountability.
, Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by C. G. Jung, 1981aside
the inability to hold these different self-states in mind simultaneously is much more profound… trauma-related dissociation is markedly different, both experientially and neurobiologically, from the internal conflicts between parts of the self
Ogden distinguishes trauma-based compartmentalization from ordinary self-state multiplicity on neurobiological grounds, arguing that defensive and attachment drives are simultaneously activated in a way that forecloses integration.
, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Interventions for Trauma and, 2015supporting