Emotional Conditioning Robs Us of Individuality
Emotionally conditioned reactions are nearly instantaneous. The person responds reflexively and unidimensionally. The reaction is based on unconscious emotional cues. Reality factors are excluded. The person assumes a role that is evoked by the other person in the...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...How Does a Child Learn to Relate With Others?
A child learns to relate with others early, during his first two years of life. This is his foundation for socialization and it remains fundamentally unchanged throughout his life. This understanding of how to relate with others comes from the child’s caretakers,...Announcing New Facebook and Twitter Pages!
My Facebook and Twitter pages are up and running. Please visit me and post Likes, Tweets and comments. FACEBOOK: Christine Adams MD Self-Understanding Blog TWITTER: @BlogAdamsMDWhy Are Relationships So Important?
The yardstick governing each person’s approach to life is not found in a structure of the brain. I have already mentioned that the brain has the same anatomical structures in each person. However, the “thinking” apparatus of the brain is responsible for the processes...What Would the Ideal Person Look Like?
In an ideal society, children would grow up endowed with standards so well balanced and reasonable that they would act appropriately in every situation. Such a person would be unfailingly thoughtful of all people, feeling the same concern for others as for oneself....Connect with Dr. Adams
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