The DEHUMANIZING factor of CONVENTION HEALING.

Healing The Soul in the Age of the Brain Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World

by Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
The Value of Consciousness

I wrote Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain because I believe that our society is in a state of moral crisis. Our lives are so consumed by the dehumanizing forces of materialism that we have lost touch with the deeper needs and values of the soul. Culturally, we value physical appearances, material possessions, creature comforts, and addictive pleasures, as if we really believed that the one who dies with the most toys wins. We then rationalize the emptiness of these materialistic values by invoking another kind of materialism—that of modern science, which gives credence only to what can be seen and measured and believes that only the physical is real.Modern psychiatry typifies the shortsightedness of this scientific world view. Its theory that mental illness is a chemical imbalance and that all inner experience is a byproduct of brain activity—the so-called Medical Model—views human beings essentially as biological puppets, controlled by the strings of DNA and brain wiring, without free will or higher consciousness. Focusing exclusively on brain and behavior, it denies the spiritual element in human nature and treats the inner life of human beings — the essence of our humanity, the source of our joy, our anxiety, our despair, of our very culture itself, including our scientific theories – not only as if it didn’t matter, but as if it didn’t even exist. I believe that this materialistic way of thinking is hazardous to the health of our culture. It promotes the delusional expectation that we can eliminate suffering and achieve a state of contented normalcy simply by taking a pill. It subverts our ideals of moral responsibility by encouraging us to rationalize anything that disturbs us within ourselves as the accidental product of an abnormal brain state: My neurotransmitters made me do it. Such dehumanizing beliefs reinforce a dehumanizing impulse that is already present within human nature. Like Dickens’s Scrooge and Disney’s Pinocchio, we are all tempted to ignore the inner voice of the soul in our pursuit of external tokens of happiness—not only because we are seduced by our culture’s materialistic values but because we are driven from within by our own materialistic passions and by our addictive need for quick, painless fixes for anything disturbing in our lives. The result is a kind of cultural mental illness in which we are, in effect, driven to dehumanize ourselves—to lose ourselves in materialistic illusions—in order to evade the fundamental anxiety of the human condition. To cure this illness requires an inner process of re-humanization—of our values, our science, and most importantly, our way of understanding our own experience. Like Scrooge and Pinocchio, we need to wake up from our shallow materialistic illusions and reclaim what we know in our heart of hearts to be true. We need to turn inward, to listen to the inner voice of our authentic self. And we need a science that acknowledges the existence of this inner self; that recognizes human consciousness not as an electrochemical process in the brain but as an irreducible experience of the soul.

In my book, I propose a new model of psychiatry and of human nature based on just such a science. This Psychotherapeutic Model understands mental illness not only in neurological but also in personal terms, as an inner emotional conflict —a disharmony of body, brain, mind and spirit—that is intrinsic to the human condition. Psychologically, inner conflict involves a disturbing unconscious emotion, threatening to become conscious, that triggers anxiety, shame, or guilt, and can lead to the development of a symptom. Conflict is resolved and the symptom disappears when we can consciously feel and accept as part of ourselves the unsettling emotion that is generating the symptom. Although medication can be useful in relieving symptoms, it is important to remember that the symptom is actually part of the healing process. Since the time of Hippocrates, physicians have understood symptoms as a manifestation of the “healing power of nature,” the organism’s adaptive response to disease. Just as symptoms like fever and cough are not diseases but rather the body’s attempt to fight an infection, so too psychiatric symptoms like anxiety and depression are not themselves diseases but rather the soul's attempt to resolve an inner conflict —by forcing us to pay attention to the unconscious dark side of ourselves that we would rather ignore. This understanding reclaims the true meaning of psychiatry: healing the soul. It views the anxiety and the disturbing symptoms of mental illness not merely as a chemical imbalance in the brain (though that may be part of it) but more importantly as a wake-up call for the soul. Healing—making whole the divided self—comes through experiencing, accepting, and taking responsibility for the dark side of ourselves in what I describe as the six phases of the psychotherapeutic process: an inward journey of self-discovery in which we allow ourselves to feel what we really feel and so become who we truly are.

[MichaelSNE remark :Treating the patient from the perspectrive of BEING A HUMAN,who is NOT merely A CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL BEING. It's AN ART derived from working experience which is more than scientific knowlege and skill]

Widen The Scope In Interpretation of SICKNESS.

Stress and soul trauma are at the root of all psychiatric disorders. This psychiatric disorder that will manifest from soul trauma is experienced and manifested in various forms.
Stress, caused by an imbalance between external environmental demands and conflict within the consciousness that demand the ability from the coping resources of the individual
SUBJECTIVELY—Feeling of distress.
BEHAVIORAL—Disturbance to personal and interpersonal functioning and performance.
PHYSIOLOGICAL—Ultimately triggering off chemical and biological changes(digestion, immunity, hormone and even properly function of heart and brain affected ).
When untreated, it undermines the WELLNESS even can kill the body, mind and soul.-- WITHOUT CLINICAL SYNTOMPS!
The world and people are changing so fast that cause trauma to so many souls at the rate medical science is not able to cope in medication and diagnosis of symptoms--Because it involve the soul and spirit man.
The following article is included to illustrate some of the above statements made on SELF----AS THE MICRO WORLD.

Vice President Al Gore stated in Earth in Balance: Ecology of the Human Spirit that "History is change, and change is a relentless driving force. Now that the human community has developed into a truly global community, we have a choice; either we search for the means to steer the changes shaping our new common history or we will be steered by them - randomly and chaotically. Either we move toward the light or we move toward the darkness."
This quote prompts us to ask a very pertinent question, "What if we could find the switch to turn off the violence in our world?" What if we discovered that the keys to ending the generation-upon-generation cyclic nature of violence are forged within the smallest of children, the new-born and the yet to be born? And, what if we fully understood that the quality of the memories of these early experiences become the chemistry and energy of later behavior, as well as the many layered consciousness by which the adults that these children become, perceive and react to the world around them?
Given these facts, at a time when there is great concern about the failure to stem the rising tide of abuse and violence world wide, nevertheless there is hope.
Changing society will require a radical change in how we perceive health of body, mind and soul. Such change demands an awareness of how what is biological interacts with the environment to render the physiological and an awareness of energy and the controlling power of its forbears in memory and consciousness. The implications for change in the prevention, treatment and management of these many disorders - particularly those that result in soul injury and violence - is ground breaking.
In light of what we know about memory and consciousness et cetera, and their imprinting on our neural pathways (particularly those that affect response), FREE WILL cannot be an unconditioned, conscious decision to follow one path or another. Behavior is a trajectory pursued and heavily influenced by the memories of many origins.
However, we can be disembodied from the effects of these inter-generational memories in terms of behavior. It is possible to change the quality of soul energy and its felt quality and therefore the consequences of negative memories and injured consciousness.
Within this context, because the locks and keys of neural transmission and the store houses of memory and consciousness in children are developmentally more susceptible to change than in adults, the healing of the brokenness of humanity must begin with children and yes, even pre-conceptionally.
As humans, we are constantly changing. Indeed, the sum of what we are at any given moment is not necessarily the sum of what we are at consequent moments. We are constantly changing due to fluctuations in particular body chemistries (glucose, etc.) and the influence of thought, feeling and behavior.
If we, as a society, can nurture the souls of children in simple and grounded ways, love may push hate aside, hope replace despair, and faith dislodge disconnectedness. If so done, it is entirely possible that within a generation or two the adults of those times will be soulfully equipped to make of God's world a less hostile and violent as well as a more loving place for all creation.
We can change the course of humankind.
HOW AND BY WHAT MEANS
We must understand and not be afraid to acknowledge that whom we are and why we are the way we are stretches far beyond and behind our own personal histories and experiences, reaching to the furthest limits of humanity's own history and experience enshrined in its collective consciousness.
We must realize the power we have to change for the better the quality of the energies in the memories and consciousness that each of us receives.
We must restore respect for women and the feminine and, in particular, be more attentive to nurturing the quality and the power of every mother's thoughts, feelings and situations during pregnancy because these energies are the greatest influences on the quality and texture of our entire life.
We must include the spiritual and self-regulatory procedures that promote healthy functioning of the trinity of body, mind and soul as central ingredients of Pre Natal Care and of School Curricula.
We must establish the sacred and the noble in personal and collective memory and consciousness by enabling parents, parents-to-be, and their children to feel and know the sacred and noble within themselves AND within every other human being, truths which have been submerged in the belief systems of religion and culture.
We must act now, beginning at the grass roots level, to inject what we know and what needs to be done into the political and religious arenas. This belief coincides with and would give LIFE and LIGHT to a statement made in a document from Vatican II entitled The Church in the Modern World -
"The future of humanity lies with those who are strong enough to give coming generations REASON for living and REASON for hoping.

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Unhealed psychological wounds and hurts from traumatic experiences or losses overshadow our capacity for fulfilling relationships and for selflove. This can result in an inability to give and receive love, in isolation and fear of others, of certain situations and the challenges of everyday life.
Traumatic experiences leave wounds in the soul, which usually heal with more difficulties than physical wounds. People who have suffered traumatic experiences often feel as if their soul has been torn apart into many parts. They live with entirely contrary feelings and thoughts: irritable and frozen, flooded with memories and empty of memories, full of shame and rage.
In many situations can people experience violence in a way which will affect them traumatically: with abuse, mistreatment, rape or with shocklike experiences like traffic accidents, kidnapping, or catastrophes’. Also the loss of a beloved person can be traumatic, and even the witnessing of violence with human beings or animals can cause deep traumatic disturbances.
Many people manage by themselves to process traumatic experiences. Why this is so, psychologists cannot say yet. One thing is certain: It is less a matter of how robust the soul of a man is, and more a matter of what happens to him/her, and how it happens, and whether the circumstances are especially shocking or humiliating. It is also decisive how the environment reacts, if it supports the victim after the traumatic experience , if it denies the happening, or even assigns a joint guilt.
Of course the age is decisive, too, and the capacity to understand the traumatic experience, to process and to talk about it. The earlier a trauma happens, the deeper it will influence the attitude towards life and the selfworth of a person.
The psychological effects of various traumatic experiences are called in psychotherapy "post traumatic stress syndrom".
There exists a complex picture of these symptoms: flashbacks- sudden reliving of the traumatic situation, nightmares, emotional numbness and missing feelings, depressions, anxieties and sleep disturbances; avoidance of situations and behaviours which could stir up memories of the trauma, low tolerance of stress situations and low selfworth in daily life, inability to have fulfilling human relationships, feelings of shame and guilt.
The key to understanding the posttraumatic disturbances is basically hidden in the traumatic situation itself.
A traumatic experience breaks the entire psychological organizational structure of a person. The soul is overcharged and overwhelmed, and finally breaks down if it cannot process or digest the trauma.
With many traumatized people happens "Introjections": The victim identifies with the aggressor. Whatever has been done to him/her is unbearable , and he/she can hardly imagine that a human being can act like this. Therefore the victim takes the act of the aggressor into himself, ascribes it to himself. And the victim also takes on the unconscious guilt of the aggressor, which often he himself does not feel, so that the aggression and the guilt continue to live in his soul like a foreign body.
Also in the family trauma originates. Children are abused or mistreated. The common form of violence against children is neglect: when children are not nourished well, receive poor medical care or are not protected against dangers. Traumatic experiences can also originate from deprivation, a deficiency in care and safety, produced by loss, death or separation of parents or beloved ones.
If sexual abuse results in psychological disturbance later on depends on the situation. A forced act is particularly traumatic if the abuse happens over longer periods of time, if more than one person is involved, or if the offender is the father. In his book the german psychoanalyst Matthias Hirsch writes that it is less the individual act which is destructive, but more the fact that the child becomes deeply confused in his feelings and his judgments about reality. If the abuse is denied within the family, the child finds himself in a similar situation as the torture victim within the society: he has experienced something which nobody wants to realize and perhaps nobody will even believe. Therefore it has to bury the experience in a place in his soul from where nothing will ever come to the surface, to the conscious, he believes.
In a situation in which our life or psychological integrity is threatened, or in which we feel that we are threatened, there are only two instinctive reactions: fight or flight.
But the abused child can neither escape nor fight, as all victims of a traumatic situation.An escape is pretending to be dead, not feeling anything, in order not to be overwhelmed by painful feelings; to leave the situation with one´s consciousness, while the body experiences it, in order not to experience it consciously.
In psychotherapy this is called " disassociation", if the traumatic experience is split up, or "derealisation" if someone escapes into a different, phantasized world. These are defence mechanisms in the traumatic situation, which can become symptoms of a psycho{Disclaimer: ogical disturbance later on, when one does not feel it, feels anaesthesized, feels cold or numb.
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