CAS PS 251 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychopathology, Nancy Chodorow, Emotional Reasoning
28 Jan 2018
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We are all born with a real self born into a culture. Bad fit (cid:1445)poor culture(cid:1446) child develops a need for security basic anxiety problems with stress, withdrawing from the world, alienated from real self. Must be born into a favourable environment in order to grow and deal with problems. Inner freedom to have own thoughts and feelings. Basic anxiety: if a child is born into a poor culture (bad fit) child develops need for security basic anxiety. Because children are powerless - unable to go out into the world and claim their rightful place. A child feeling helpless in a world that is cold and hostile. They must repress feelings of hostility and anger towards powerful parent trying to please parents to have their needs met. Three ways of dealing with the world (if a person has basic anxiety, they become rigid and use one of the following: move toward the world/people (passive people)
