Hi, so I am watching a movie about a person with emotional detachment.
Emotional detachment
In psychology, emotional detachment is the inability to connect to others on an emotional level, as well as a means of coping with anxiety by avoiding certain situations that trigger it. It refers to the evasion of emotional connections. It may be a temporary reaction to highly emotional circumstances or a chronic condition such as a depersonalization disorder.
Emotional detachment can be a positive behavior which allows a person to react calmly to highly emotional circumstances. Emotional detachment in this sense is a decision to avoid engaging emotional connections,
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Merullo’s early works have been termed thoughtful and reflective. "I think I am a person who cares about the emotional life of people...and so I spend a lot of time on the emotional experiences of my characters—rather than, say, their intellectual experiences," he once said. But, "Golfing with God", "Breakfast with Buddha" and "American Savior" exhibited a more overtly spiritual theme – albeit humorous in tone. The seeds of this thematic shift can perhaps be traced