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RonPrice · 07-02-2007, 08:34 AM

As long as you folks don't mind a discussion going on for years, I don't mind dropping in. The issues of conflict and the sexes I'm sure will be with us for some time.

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I came across some interest ideas from: The Emotional Life of Nations
by Lloyd deMause---Chapter 8----The Evolution of the Psyche and Society
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I'll post just one paragraph...I think it offers interesting perspectives onconflict in the family. If you enjoy this one paragraph, go to the article on the net.-Ron Price, Tasmania

HISTORY AS THE INTEGRATION OF THE SELF

Most people even today have only achieved a partial integration of the "relatively independent subselves" that recent studies show they begin constructing as infants.3 The most thorough recent study of dissociation using a sophisticated interview technique finds that "14 percent of the general public experience ‘substantial’ dissociative symptoms"4 and most of the rest of us experience lesser dissociative symptoms when triggered by situations similar to the original abuse. This may seem excessive, until one remembers that perhaps half of the adults today were sexually abused as children, that most of us were physically and emotionally abused to some extent and that helping mode parenting which respects the growth and individuation of children is everywhere still rare.

We may be surprised to discover that people in the past had their demon alters exorcised or had conversations with their various inner souls, but even today religious spirit possessions are not uncommon—a third of Americans say they have experienced other spirits in themselves and over 90 percent of us believe in and at times converse with (pray to) god alters of one sort or another.5 Even in our day-to-day personal reactions, we more often switch into alters than we like to admit: "’Mom, don’t we have any cornflakes?’ Shawn asked….Immediately the Mean alter sprang into action. ‘Screw you, Shawn! Why are you so helpless? Find something else if we don’t have any goddamn cornflakes. I’m not your fucking slave!’"6

07-02-2007, 08:34 AM	#10 (permalink)
RonPrice Upright Location: George Town Tasmania Australia	And Another 14 Months To Get Back Here As long as you folks don't mind a discussion going on for years, I don't mind dropping in. The issues of conflict and the sexes I'm sure will be with us for some time. ______________ I came across some interest ideas from: The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause---Chapter 8----The Evolution of the Psyche and Society ___________ I'll post just one paragraph...I think it offers interesting perspectives onconflict in the family. If you enjoy this one paragraph, go to the article on the net.-Ron Price, Tasmania HISTORY AS THE INTEGRATION OF THE SELF Most people even today have only achieved a partial integration of the "relatively independent subselves" that recent studies show they begin constructing as infants.3 The most thorough recent study of dissociation using a sophisticated interview technique finds that "14 percent of the general public experience ‘substantial’ dissociative symptoms"4 and most of the rest of us experience lesser dissociative symptoms when triggered by situations similar to the original abuse. This may seem excessive, until one remembers that perhaps half of the adults today were sexually abused as children, that most of us were physically and emotionally abused to some extent and that helping mode parenting which respects the growth and individuation of children is everywhere still rare. We may be surprised to discover that people in the past had their demon alters exorcised or had conversations with their various inner souls, but even today religious spirit possessions are not uncommon—a third of Americans say they have experienced other spirits in themselves and over 90 percent of us believe in and at times converse with (pray to) god alters of one sort or another.5 Even in our day-to-day personal reactions, we more often switch into alters than we like to admit: "’Mom, don’t we have any cornflakes?’ Shawn asked….Immediately the Mean alter sprang into action. ‘Screw you, Shawn! Why are you so helpless? Find something else if we don’t have any goddamn cornflakes. I’m not your fucking slave!’"6 __________________ Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 67(in 2011). He taught for 35 years and is now a writer and editor, a poet and publisher. He has been a Baha'i for 52 years(also in 2011)