Are Your Family Dynamics Driving You Psycho?
Psychodynamics are at the root of family dynamics.
The other night I watched The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. I thought this movie did a pretty good job of reflecting how emotional baggage and issues can be passed down from one generation to the next. I’m sure the book was much better at fleshing out the characters and issues, but given the time constraints, the movie gives a good taste of how family dynamics can drive us a little psycho.
As they say, we don’t get to choose our family – unless you subscribe to the notion that the soul initiates some sort of choice in incarnating – a notion that seems particularly anthropomorphic to me in the ways it is generally related.
As I observe and work with myself and others, psychodynamics and family dynamics account for a great deal of the content presented to explore and work with. Many people fail to appreciate the depth and subtlety of how psychodynamics and family dynamics bind the soul and occlude awareness of our deeper nature.
Intellectual understanding alone will do little to free our psyche from the patterns and conditioning formulated in our early experience. The roots of these patterns exist at a pre-verbal level of development and the only way to free the consciousness of the pattern is through re-experiencing the affective state in a manner that allows a process of disidentification to occur.
An understanding of the self which would include perspectives from depth psychology, object relations psychology and the spiritual perspective (true self, soul, being) is a great help in supporting the process of disidentification.
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