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From: LH
Date: 10/1/01
Time: 10:48:22 PM
Remote Name: 24.237.148.241
Possibly, but only for some people. Dissociation often accompanies panic, but it is also found in association with such a wide range of other psychological disturbances (for instance, obsessive-compulsive disorders and phobias), as well as by itself, that have also been ascribed to stuttering that I'd hate to make a blanket statement. The thing that interests me is that half to three-quarters of people who stutter report something like dissociation when stuttering. It is very, very premature to ascribe either cause or effect to the phenomenon.
Lou Heite