The Psychological Problem - Cause And Cure Flashcards
How many parts are there to a psychological problem?
5 parts
What is the first part of a psychological problem?
A significant change in your environment
What is the second part of a psychological problem?
Your beliefs on how to automatically behave in your environment is shown to be invalid.
It no longer predicts what you should do to be successful (ie. receive positives and avoid negatives in that changed environment).
What is the third part of a psychological problem?
Newly revealed negatives trigged by the change in environment that are not acknowledged.
What is the fourth part of a psychological problem?
Personal negatives revealed by change in environment which are not acknowledged.
What is the fifth part of a psychological problem?
Denial of any of the other four parts.
Withdrawal from the changed part of the environment.
How does stopping denial helps with resolving psychological problems?
One can focus on the (relatively straightforward) issue of dealing with the other 4 causes of psychological problems. Namely:
1) Environment change.
2) Malfunctioning belief on how to perceive and behave automatically in that changed part of your environment.
3) Negatives revealed in your environment by change.
4) Negatives revealed in yourself by change.
How many major types of psychological problems are there for normal people?
Five
What is psychological problem type 1?
Irrational emotional bonds between parent and child, keeping them in parent and child roles which prevent remaking the relationship into that of two adults
What is psychological problem type 2?
Irrational emotional self assessment as a result of unpredicted change in social, sexual, performance or expertise standards at school, job, home or other situations where early situations does not predict what is needed to be successful in or generalise to a later situation.
What is psychological problem type 3?
Irrational emotional self assessment in dating/courting environments preventing the use of one’s own personal relationship negatives for evaluating future potential mates.
What is psychological problem type 4?
irrational emotional self assessment dealing with unpredictable negatives from close, caring partners during conflict as well as in sexual situations.
What is psychological problem type 5?
Irrational emotional self assessment dealing with negative consequences of personal loss in relationships. loved ones, career, physical or mental abilities and skills.
What are some examples of type 2 psychological problems?
Freud’s Anna “O”
Appalachian miners
Difficulty of new parents
Psychological trauma from war, natural disasters, mugged, raped.
What is an example of type 1 psychological problem?
Unassertive person
Why is an unassertive person classified as type 1 psychological problem?
The unassertive person is afraid of emotional effect and consequence of being assertive just like a child is afraid of loosing the affection and goodwill of a parent when misbehaving.
Why is new mother suffering from post partum depression classified as type 1 psychological problem?
Reality of rearing an infant does not match indoctrinated beliefs on how wonderful is it having a child.
What is an example of type 3 psychological problem?
A person that is unable to practically deal with own personal negatives in a dating situation.
What is an example of type 4 psychological problem?
In a close relationship, everything goes by the other partner in regulating the first’s desire, wants and behaviours
What is an example of type 5 psychological problem?
Loss of lover, mate, family member, child, job, career or physical/mental ability
What are the characteristics required of psychological penicillin?
1) It must work relatively fast
2) Its results must be measurable
3) If you know from past experience that it should work fast but it does not, it must have alternative method of doing the same job (eg. increase dosage)
Why we also perceive our belief?
Because we perceive our particular restricted environment as the entire environment
What does our belief program?
Our automatic routine behaviour
What are automatic routine behaviour?
Universal beliefs which describes how we should behave, feel and relate in every situation. The next best thing to factual information.
If a short expansion of one’s environment followed by a restriction. What have happened?
Psychological problem have occured without resolution.
Here be dragons coping have been employed (either removing the dragons or remove yourself).
If an expansion of one’s environment with no subsequent restriction. What have occured?
A psychological problem have occured and resolved.
No psychological problem have occured.
What is a psychological child?
A person lacking experience and sophistication, automatically employ primary, primitive methods of coping with difficulties inherited from animal ancestors (fight or flight).
What is a psychological adult?
Does not involuntarily use environmental restriction as a coping method for the possible negatives, confusions and mixups of an expanded environment.
Always associated with environment payoff expansion.
What is environmental expansion?
Venturing into uncharted territory.
More negatives, more contradictions, confusion, no workable roadmaps.
What is environmental restriction?
Staying within one’s bounds.
No maturity and experience to handle confusing negatives.
What is the natural progression of resolving a psychological problem?
Reverse order of its development.
5) eliminate withdrawal
4) desensitise personal negatives
3) desensitise environmental negatives
2) establish thinking control over malfunctioning belief
1) rejoin the changed environment to work out practical and logistical details
What is the full name of the law of effect?
Law of effect of rewards and punishments
What is the law of effect?
Everything we do, or see others do, has a function and a payoff. All of our behaviour including our emotions and beliefs, is controlled by rewards or punishments.
win-stay, lose-change, trial and error learning strategy.
What are your value system based on?
Your beliefs
What are your beliefs based on?
Your psychological environment
What is the environmental law of behaviour?
Stability and longevity of behaviours, emotions and beliefs are directly proportional to the degree of restriction and payoffs in the environment.
Unpredictability and instability of behaviour, emotions and beliefs are directly proportional to the degree of expansion of the payoffs in the environment.
What is the first sub law of environmental law of behaviour?
The environmental law of payoff restriction
What is the second sub law of the environmental law of behaviour?
The environmental law of emotion
What is the environmental law of emotion?
Bonding intensity and longevity of positive emotions is directly related to how restricted the payoff environment is and for how long.
