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en-wikipedia-org-5931		Emotional detachment - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1421	220	45	Find sources: "Emotional detachment" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, has two meanings: one is the inability to connect to others on an emotional level; the other is as a positive means of coping with anxiety. Emotional blunting as reduced affect display is one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Emotional detachment in this sense is a decision to avoid engaging emotional connections, rather than an inability or difficulty in doing so, typically for personal, social, or other reasons. Emotional detachment may allow acts of extreme cruelty and abuse, supported by the decision to not connect empathically with the person concerned. Social ostracism, such as shunning and parental alienation, are other examples where decisions to shut out a person creates a psychological trauma for the shunned party.[5]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5931.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5931.txt