reassociating

Forming new connections

Reassociating is the act of forming an association again after a break or disconnection.

In computing, a device reassociates with a wireless network when it reconnects after losing signal: My laptop keeps reassociating with the router.

More broadly, it can mean mentally reconnecting ideas or memories: Therapy helped her begin reassociating positive feelings with the place.

social

reconnecting

Resuming a severed link

affiliating · realigning · regrouping · reconciling · reuniting · reestablishing · rebuilding · mending · bridges · ties

psychological

reconnecting

Resuming a severed link

unlinking · relinking · decoupling · recategorizing · reattaching · dissociating · integrating · restructuring · rewiring · reprogramming

memory

recall

Memory retrieval act

retrieval · triggers · cues · reconsolidation · encoding · reactivation · episodic · autobiographical · priming · mnemonics

neurological

synapses

Neuron-to-neuron transmission points

connections · networks · plasticity · cortical · hippocampal · consolidation · pruning · dendrites · axons · neurotransmitters

therapeutic

trauma-focused

Oriented toward psychological injury

exposure · psychotherapy · counseling · intervention · healing · transference · insight · integration · recovery · resilience

Opposites
connection status

reassociatingdissociating

Mentally separating from awareness

disassociating · disconnecting · severing · separating · detaching

relational direction

reassociatingisolating

Setting apart from contact

distancing · removing · excluding · expelling · banishing

Family

reassociation

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