Reflections on Canalization and Psychopathology
Modern culture is not promoting an integrative self, identity, or belonging. This impairment to integration is leading to the accelerating chaos and rigidity in our personal, public, and planetary lives.
Daniel J. Siegel • IntraConnected
However, despite this extensive focus on medical treatments, there was a noticeable lack of meaningful discourse about the mind itself—its connection to consciousness, its intangible aspects, and its role in shaping human experience beyond the framework of pathology. This glaring omission underscores a reductionist tendency in Western mental health
... See moreTroy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
In this paper, Walls tells how the popular ideas of psychoanalysis and even the self have been selectively informed by Darwin's ideas of competition and individualism. The societal exclusion of Darwin and other scientist's work on the superiority of group cooperation has made for a model of psychology that looks for causes of distress within the in... See more
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
Trauma-related structural dissociation, then, is a deficiency in the cohesiveness and flexibility of the personality structure (Resch, 2004). This deficiency does not mean that the personality is completely split into different “systems of ideas and functions,” but rather that there is a lack of cohesion and coordination among these systems that co
... See moreEllert R. S. Nijenhuis • The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
If the trauma is severe enough, a person may lose the capacity to concentrate on necessary goals. If that happens, the self is no longer in control. If the impairment is very severe, consciousness becomes random, and the person “loses his mind”—the various symptoms of mental disease take over. In less severe cases the threatened self survives, but
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