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Distributed Parenting
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1 For the sake of readability, the presenting symptoms and signs of today’s post-industrial Dundee are presented in the main text, while insights into similar ‘patients’ elsewhere and into the wider context are largely restricted to these notes. Thus the notes should be seen as evidence of contextual validity and […]
In terms of our clinical entity analogy, distributed parenting is an attempt to recover the patient: the community fighting for its survival. But, as with real diseases, the fight causes the community to generate toxins in its system. One toxic effect of distributed parenting as a reproductive form is to […]
What of the adolescent males? How does distributed parenting affect the developmental path of boys? We have seen in Section IV that the ox-bow scheme is no more propitious an environment for development for adolescent boys than for adolescent girls, especially for those from non-educogenic homes. But boys have no […]
A mid-teenage girl living out an adolescence in which her family, friends and teachers are not providing sufficient positive support to enable her to manage the challenges of changing has both the motive and the opportunity to escape. The opportunity is provided by the facts a) that she is sexually […]
Human evolution takes place at the level of culture rather than of ‘nature’. Mind is what matters. Rather than organisms, it is cultural properties and social behaviours which get selected for by environmental change. When socio-economic niches alter, if the social groups occupying them can relinquish their current socio-cultural behaviours […]
The last pathologico-physiological (functional) deficit to emerge from the research requires us to invent a new term: ‘copelessness’. Inductively derived from the data from this study, copelessness is defined as a syndrome in which two regressive social psychological features are typically found fused together, co-morbidly reinforcing each other: poor organization […]
We live in a consumer society. This means we no longer live in a society of producers, a society which assesses your worth by what you do or make. Where once almost everybody who stepped out of doors to go to work could not avoid proclaiming their social class and/or […]
The principal drug that emerged in the research was alcohol. A primary ingredient in the exchange of hospitality, it also had a primary psychosocial context, men in the pub. 19 I’m not sure what priorities people have, probably having satellite or cable TV, these are big things for most folk. […]
Smoking is now such a well-known health risk80 that it is disconcerting to hear it asserted that some people’s lives are such that smoking is a necessity. The health consequences seem to be discounted because they only accrue in the long term. 14 A lot of people have the “It […]
Bad diet kills. But where do bad diets come from? Food performs many functions beyond those pertaining to simple nutrition; it is always culturally elaborated. In our population the cultural practices surrounding eating spoke eloquently of two requirements poor people placed on food. The first was the expectation that it […]
Not every unhappy person can benefit from the services of a CPN. In this section attention falls on the leading self-service comforting modes people select to hold at bay the deprivations of the hour, the regrets of the past and the unthinkability of the long-term: eating, smoking, and alcohol and […]