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Lew A (Lincoln) Welge's avatar

Cosseting then is “over-functioning” (ref. #Bowenism). Such parenting behavior &/or Action(s) In Relationship Systems (AIRS) Enables Dependency/“under-functioning,” undermines initiative, & is a form of “emotional enmeshment”

which fosters “learned helplessness.” Ty.

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Gulsun Uluer's avatar

While parenting a child, a person fluctuates from one mood to another. Sometimes I think motherhood is insanity itself, and I'm extremely suprrised that so many people willingly undertakes this role. Thank you for contribution, I learned new things :)

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Lew A (Lincoln) Welge's avatar

Bowenism is a Mind-blowing and potentially revolutionary psychosocial paradigm which counters allotherapeutic #BigMedicine’s deterministically individualistic, excessively & obsessively analytic, compulsively pharmacological, patriarchally & paternally Puritanical, Spiritually bereft, and now the #NEARLY wholly anachronistic Freudian & neo-Freudian psychiatric theoretical model, in my personal and professional opinion (impapo).

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