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Permalink Reply by Dr. Dennis Robinson PhD on December 10, 2011 at 10:58pm

 

Obviously we understand as Dr. Erickson as well as both Pavlov and Freud, how everyone actually suffers from their own Neurosis, then it's easy to feel that we are training our children with both sides of the mind, and actually teaching them the manner in which way they may assimilate information that is processed from their five senses. Therefore we may clearly comprehend that even the most, well meaning parents at times assist in the formation of certain psychosis. When you look back at your clients and see how it's not the smoking or overeating or whatever the case may be, but rather its the symptoms or outward manifestation of an inner problem that is the key to their being free from so many other forms of "acting out".

Sure over time as we communicate subliminally with each other we learn what hot buttons to push and which to pull in order to gain the control of others we are in close relationship with but don't feel it's more subliminal and unconscious than we really are aware of? What would you say to a hypothesis that we communicate more on subconscious levels than on conscious levels and especially with those closest to us, and can’t you see the realization of the sort of information suggested in this article is proof positive of this phenomenon.

I looked at this website you suggested and found many interesting articles so I would like to thank you for bringing them to my awareness.

Your friend Dennis

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Permalink Reply by Susan French on December 11, 2011 at 7:10am

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Dennis.

I tend more to consider the simple and obvious first: self-ish-ness is an inbred survival skill.  The survivors reproduced.  Fortunately, those who were communal, realizing that there was power in numbers, also survived and reproduced.

I think that is this pull of these opposing drives that creates a lot of the tragi-comedy of being alive.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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