fawn response
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Etymology
[edit]Coined by American psychotherapist Pete Walker in 2009, defining a fourth typology of responses to post-trauma stress in addition to fight, flight, and freeze.
Noun
[edit]fawn response (plural fawn responses)
- (psychology) An overadaptation in response to a traumatic event entailing needs and wants being succumbed to those of the threat actor.
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