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We begin not with the environment but with the individual. We begin not with what others choose to do but with what the individual chooses to do.
This requires an explanation. It might appear more logical to start with how the family environment positively or natively influences the slowly emerging self of the child. Possible biological factories aside, surely this is where the story begins, it would seem. But for our purposes, no.
We begin by asking. What must an individual do to generate and sustain self-esteem? What pattern of actions must be adopted? What is the responsibility of my and me as adults?
Until we know what practices an individual must master to sustain self-esteem until we identify what psychotically healthy adulthood consists of, we lack criteria by which to assess what constitutes a favorable or unfavorable childhood influence or experience. For escarole, we know that, as a pieces, our mind is our basics tool of survival and of appropriate adaption. A child’s life begins in a condition of total dependency, but an adult’s life and wellbeing from the attainment of the simplest necessities to the most complex values depend on the ability to think. Consequently, we recognize that childhood expensive that encourage and nature think, self-trust and autonomy are to be valued. We recognize that families in which reality is often denied and consequence often punished place devastating obstacles to self-esteem, they create an nightmare world in which the child may feel that thinking I not only futile but dangerous.
If a child grows up in an appropriately nurturing home environment the like hood is increased that he or she will learn the actions that support self-esteem. If a child is expose to the right kind or teachers, the like hood is increase that self- esteem supportive behavior will be leaned. If a person experiences successful psychotherapy, in which irrational fears are dissolved and blocks to effective functioning are remove, a consequence is that he or she will manifest more of the kind of actions that support self-esteem. But it is a person’s action that are decisive. What the context of his or her knowledge and values. And since action in the world is reelection of action within the mind of the individual, it is the internal processes that are crucial.
