Stories About "The Psychotic Landscape"

In order for human beings to survive they need to develop both factual information about the world and skills to solve the problems that prevent satisfaction of their many needs. Human beings have the longest period of development of any species making parents, families, teachers and others including political leaders critically important in the development of factual information and various skills necessary for survival and sucess in complex environments. We have evolved powerful emotional bonds between caretakers and their charges, particularly between parents and children, to insure that the important survival skills and information be transmitted between the generations. These bonds tend to insure that developing individuals will trust their most important caretakers over any competing sources of information and skill development. These bonds also tend to insure that the caretakers will be loyal to their charges over the prolonged period of social, intellectual and moral development. Today's discussion concerns itself with the psychological consequences that might occur when loyalty and trust rupture between between a developing child and their most important catetakers. Much of what we, in the mental health industry falsly call mental illness and disorders, are best understood to be the intellectual and emotional consequences of failed loyalty and trust. These consequences include massive anxiety, confusion, and rage as well as the desperate struggles of individuals to find the truths and skills to orient themselves to the world indorder to survive and prosper.