If you detach yourself from something, you become less involved in it or less concerned about it than you used to be. It helps them detach themselves from their problems and become more objective
cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery" military use: separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment
To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party
If you detach one thing from another that it is fixed to, you remove it. If one thing detaches from another, it becomes separated from it. Detach the white part of the application form and keep it It is easy to detach the currants from the stems There was an accident when the towrope detached from the car