WORLD VIEW: Elements of Default Human Behavioral Dysfunction

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WORLD VIEW ELEMENTS OF DEFAULT HUMAN BEHAVIORAL DYSFUNCTION

PART ONE: A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW

"Dysfunction by default" is a situation or condition that obtains (is established) in the absence of active intervention.

Dysfunction is any action or feeling that diverts resources away from meeting productivity and quality standards.

A dysfunctional behavior can be defined as "an inappropriate action or response, other than an activity of daily living, in a given social milieu that is a problem for and/or in the larger society."

Children learn to know the outer side of nature through perception; its deeper-lying driving powers reveal themselves within his own inner life as subjective experiences.

Children learn two broad categories of things during the socialization process. First, there are the common practices and institutions of a culture, including its language, style of dress, what is considered edible, the expected roles of mothers, fathers, teachers, etc. These things are relatively easy to observe by anthropologists and other outsiders visiting from a different society. The second thing acquired during socialization is a world-view. This is the complex of motivations, perceptions, and beliefs that we internalize and that strongly affect how we interact with other people and things in nature.

World-views are rarely verbalized by people, but they can be inferred by their actions. For instance, if you believe that most people are honest and will not cheat you, it is likely that you will be open and trusting of others. Most people are unable to describe their world-view beliefs because they remain in their mind as rather fuzzy assumptions about people, society, and existence in general. World-view is a set of feelings and basic attitudes about the world rather than clearly formulated opinions about it. These feelings and attitudes are mostly learned early in life and are not readily changed later.
In small-scale societies, most people share essentially the same world-view because they are socialized in much the same way. In complex large-scale societies, however, there often is a large amount of variation in world-views. This is due to the fact that these societies often are culturally heterogeneous and have major differences in socialization practices.


The anti-social personality disorder is a world view not a disorder.

Eric Berne originally described life scripts as being formed from the primal dramas and implicit protocols of infancy and early childhood. John Bowlby’s attachment theory and the supporting research provide a theoretical integration with script theory and suggest the necessity of a developmental focus in psychotherapy. Secure, anxious/ambivalent, avoidant, disorganized, and isolated attachment patterns are described in relation to life scripts and their implications for psychotherapy.

Life scripts are random unconscious systems of psychological organization and self-regulation developed as a result of the cumulative failures in significant, dependent relationships. Scripts are unconsciously formed by infants, young children, and even adolescents and adults as a creative strategy for coping with disruptions in relationships that repeatedly fail to satisfy crucial developmental and relational needs. The unconscious organizing patterns that compose a life script are often first established in infancy as subsymbolic internal relational models based on the quality of the infant/caretaker relationship. These early models are then reinforced and elaborated during a number of developmental ages. The results are the unconscious relational patterns that constitute a life script.

The Aha! Moment

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight

A sudden comprehension that solves a problem, reinterprets a situation, explains a joke, or resolves an ambiguous percept is called an insight (i.e., the "Aha! moment"). Psychologists have studied insight using behavioral methods for nearly a century. Recently, the tools of cognitive neuroscience have been applied to this phenomenon. A series of studies have used electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural correlates of the "Aha! moment" and its antecedents. Although the experience of insight is sudden and can seem disconnected from the immediately preceding thought, these studies show that insight is the culmination of a series of brain states and processes operating at different time scales. Elucidation of these precursors suggests interventional opportunities for the facilitation of insight.

The False Consensus Effect - thinking everyone agrees with you.


The Eight Basic Scripts
 1. The biosurvival


Winner

"I will live forever or die trying."

Loser

"I don't know how to defend myself."
2. The emotional-territorial


Winner

"I am free; you are free; we can have our
separate trips or we can have the same trip."

Loser

"They all intimidate me."
3. The semantic


Winner

"I am learning more about everything,
including how to learn more."

Loser

"I can't solve my problems."
4. The sociosexual


Winner

"Love, and do what thou wilt." (Anon. of Ibid)

Loser

"Everything I like is illegal, immoral, or fattening."
5. The neurosomatic


Winner

"How I feel depends on my neurological knowhow."

Loser

"I can't help the way I feel."
6. The metaprogramming


Winner

"I make my own coincidences, synchronicities,
luck, and Destiny."

Loser

"Why do I have such lousy luck?"
7. The neurogenetic


Winner

"Future evolution depends on my decisions now."

Loser

"Evolution is blind and impersonal."
8. The neuroatomic


Winner
"In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true,
or becomes true within certain limits to be learned by
experience and experiment." (Dr.John Lilly)


Loser

"I am not psychic, and I doubt anyone is."

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It may not be easy for you to say what your personal world-view beliefs are because you probably have not critically evaluated them. One way of doing that is to think about opposing beliefs and consider which way you come out on the issues. In order to begin this process of self-evaluation, think about polar opposite positions.
 　
What Is Your Life Script? (Dr. Phil)
 
How fixed beliefs define our roles:
Our fixed beliefs define the roles we play in life and have a lot to do with the scripts that are running them. Just as actors follow a play's script for lines, actions and attitude, we follow life scripts according to what our fixed beliefs tell us. Are you telling yourself that you are a tragic character or heroic character? Are you playing the loving mother, abusive husband, frustrated artist or successful businessman?

Why scripts are dangerous:
Whatever your fixed beliefs are, you have practiced your script for so long that you believe what it says about you and your potential. This is why life scripts are dangerous. We begin to perceive them as being set in stone. We even allow them to shape the way we expect things to turn out. Fixed beliefs also influence the casting, location and wardrobe of our script. Who is "right" for the part in our script and who isn't? What type of living arrangement and attire are appropriate for the character we are playing, etc.?

When life scripts become limiting:
Because our scripts are based on fixed beliefs, we tend to resist any challenges or changes to them. If we suddenly feel happy and fulfilled, but our script says that we should feel sad and hopeless, we tend to panic because we've gone "off script." It just doesn't feel right and besides, the happy role belongs to someone else, doesn't it? This is an example of why most fixed beliefs are also limiting beliefs. They limit our scripts by dictating what we can't do, don't deserve and aren't qualified for.