How Judgment Is Altered by Our Early Child-Rearing
I have mentioned the child enters into a learning experience with his parent(s). Every interaction formulates components of the child’s resulting personality and how he will deal with others throughout his life. This set of conditioned learning experiences occurs in a...Everyone Wants to Control Anxiety in Relationships
We usually know how the important people in our lives will behave in a given circumstance. Otherwise our social relations would be more chaotic than they are. The ability of the mind to control anxiety, remarkable though it may be, is not without limits. Each...How Conscious and Unconscious Parental Messages Conflict
Many children have emotional illnesses. Therapists who treat them understand that the child’s strategy of relating is governed by the parents’ unconscious instructions. This strategy becomes entrenched in the child’s personality. A child may be told verbally that he...What Messages Does a Child Learn About Relating?
Like it or not, the unconscious lessons a parent delivers are the ones learned by the child. These messages may be inconsistent with what the parent intends to teach. Not only are the messages often incongruent, they may negate one another entirely. The child may...Connect with Dr. Adams
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