Infants learn to cope with erratic parenting. Dad shouts, mum dies, or vice versa

<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU6PsspzeSsce0jmOPaoh7hxFCNU50aGWkc2AOB44_IvS5jv6J7q3EsqE0MKUnA38RfQpQqXlWkxRBy0zVFGG-KIpreHBbKIdcBwEhyphenhyphenroTrrcj8StllRaUEGr3y1gogQ084Bka2SomLwk/s1600/love-yourself-more-6-300x240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU6PsspzeSsce0jmOPaoh7hxFCNU50aGWkc2AOB44_IvS5jv6J7q3EsqE0MKUnA38RfQpQqXlWkxRBy0zVFGG-KIpreHBbKIdcBwEhyphenhyphenroTrrcj8StllRaUEGr3y1gogQ084Bka2SomLwk/s1600/love-yourself-more-6-300x240.jpg" /></a></div> Infants learn to cope with erratic parenting. Dad shouts, mum dies, or vice versa – the actual event is not material, the context is all. Infants have no physical defence, so they devise a mental one – “this isn't happening to me”. So here’s a message to a dad, and to all parents – no parent I have ever met wants to give their child a psychosis, and I’m sure we don’t – but some infants are caught on the hop, and get stuck. They can be unstuck, but only when they can be persuaded that thinking is safe again – simple, but not easy. Infant survival strategies get prolonged into adulthood, ‘infant-ism’ – it doesn't work, it can be shown not to work, and with enough trustworthy emotional support, non-psychotic thinking can be restored. </span>

Infants learn to cope with erratic parenting. Dad shouts, mum dies, or vice versa

Infants learn to cope with erratic parenting. Dad shouts, mum dies, or vice versa – the actual event is not material, the context is all...

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