Basic Hostility & Basic Anxiety

favorable conditions

people need these kinds of conditions for growth

favorable conditions

must include a warm and loving environment yet one that is not overly permissive

genuine love & healthy discipline

Children need to experience both < (2&)

genuine love & healthy discipline

(2&) provide them with feelings of safety and satisfaction and permit them to grow in accordance with their real self

basic hostility

feelings towards parents developed by child when parents do not satisfy the child's needs for safety and satisfaction

basic hostility

repressed by child thus having no awareness of it

repressed hostility

leads to basic anxiety

basic anxiety

profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension

basic anxiety

feeling of being isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile

basic anxiety

feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted, endangered, in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, attack, humiliate, betray, envy

hostile impulses

principal source of basic anxiety

basic anxiety

can also contribute to feelings of hostility

reactive hostility

developed in children's defense of parents' threats (children FEEL threatened by parents)

reactive hostility

creates additional anxiety that completes the interactive circle between hostility and anxiety

basic anxiety

constant and unrelenting, needing no particular stimulus

basic anxiety

permeates all relationships with others

basic anxiety

leads to unhealthy ways of trying to cope with people

protective devices

become unhealthy when people feel compelled to rely on them and are thus unable to employ a variety of inter personal strategies

protective devices

all people use it to some extent thus it doesnt necessarily indicate neurosis

compulsion

salient characteristic of all neurotic drives