Posted by Chris O on August 13, 2014, at 15:02:18
As I was pondering Robin Williams suicide yesterday, I ran into a a 1997 journal article by Doryann Lebe from Psychoanalytical Review (that probably has nothing to do with Robin Williams' suicide), but which contained a sentence that resonated with me deeply. I've copied it below. (I got to this article after reading Jesse Bering's great article in Scientific American--"Being Suicidal: What It Feels Like to Want to Kill Yourself"--his meditation on Florida State University psychologist Roy Baumeister's 1990 Psychological Review article "Suicide as an Escape from Self." Link to Bering's article: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2010/10/20/being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-to-want-to-kill-yourself/)
Wondering if the sentence below resonates with any other babblers? The Bering article is a great read, if you have the time, too.
"The child will tolerate physical and mental suffering to remain attached to the needed-even though pain inducing-mother. If the child is not attached, he feels helpless and fears survival. This attachment and fear is internalized and becomes unconscious as development proceeds. Eventually, what is observed in adult patients is a person who is sensitive to others, but unable to be sensitive to him/herself."
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