English Explanatory Dictionary

fawn response

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An overadaptation in response to a traumatic event entailing needs and wants being succumbed to those of the threat actor.

Word forms

fawn response fawn responses

Etymology

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.

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