Virtualoso
08-19-2003, 12:26 AM
In article <3F417FA4.55D4F6E6@earthlink2001.net>, Buddy H.
<buddy-51@earthlink2001.net> wrote:
> Sex and intimacy are usually also connected to past unresolved
> conflicts with important Primary Objects (parents or caregivers).
"[Certain experiences], especially when suffered at an early age, are
thought to predispose individuals to later adult impairments, including
alcoholism, depression, and an array of psychological as well as
physical disorders. Psychotherapy, oriented toward uncovering the early
antecedent traumas of adult disorders, is predicated on the hypothesis
that early life experiences determine the development of an individual
throughout adulthood. Most often the effect is found to be negative."
"Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg, a prominent developmental psychologist,
reviewed the research on the predictability of adult adaptation and
health based on childhood experiences. He and his colleagues
concentrated on the key longitudinal studies in the three areas of
emotional development, sexual development, and social behavior. They
concluded that the pervasive belief that early life experience
determines adult behavior is ... a myth."
"My study further confirms this research, demonstrating that traumatic
events in childhood often serve as catalysts for the later development
of such positive adult characteristics as altruism, compassion,
commitment, and resistance to psychological and physical illness. In
spite of this accumulating evidence the myth of the "unhealthy child,
unhealthy adult" continues to be promulgated, and people are made to
fear that early life trauma spells the absence of health, achievement,
and happiness in adulthood."
- Dr. Kenneth Pelletier
<buddy-51@earthlink2001.net> wrote:
> Sex and intimacy are usually also connected to past unresolved
> conflicts with important Primary Objects (parents or caregivers).
"[Certain experiences], especially when suffered at an early age, are
thought to predispose individuals to later adult impairments, including
alcoholism, depression, and an array of psychological as well as
physical disorders. Psychotherapy, oriented toward uncovering the early
antecedent traumas of adult disorders, is predicated on the hypothesis
that early life experiences determine the development of an individual
throughout adulthood. Most often the effect is found to be negative."
"Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg, a prominent developmental psychologist,
reviewed the research on the predictability of adult adaptation and
health based on childhood experiences. He and his colleagues
concentrated on the key longitudinal studies in the three areas of
emotional development, sexual development, and social behavior. They
concluded that the pervasive belief that early life experience
determines adult behavior is ... a myth."
"My study further confirms this research, demonstrating that traumatic
events in childhood often serve as catalysts for the later development
of such positive adult characteristics as altruism, compassion,
commitment, and resistance to psychological and physical illness. In
spite of this accumulating evidence the myth of the "unhealthy child,
unhealthy adult" continues to be promulgated, and people are made to
fear that early life trauma spells the absence of health, achievement,
and happiness in adulthood."
- Dr. Kenneth Pelletier