The continuum concept

Contents INTRODUCTION : Some Reports and Thoughts for the New Edition / ix ONE : How My Ideas Were So Radically Changed / 3 - Seeing first, understanding later, then going back to confirm my observations - Arriving at the Continuum Concept TWO : The Continuum Concept / 21 - What a human being is evolved to expect from life - His inherent tendencies - How the continuum works, in the individual and in the culture THREE : The Beginning of Life / 29 - Natural birth and traumatic birth - The expectations and tendencies of the infant - The in-arms phase and its consequences in the rest of one's life - The experience of infants and babies within the continuum, and without FOUR : Growing Up / 76 - What it means to be a social animal - The innate Talent for Self-Preservation, the growth of self-reliance, and the Importance of respecting the child's responsibility for himself - The assumption of innate sociality and its implications - How a child educates himself - The kind of assistance required of his Edlers FIVE : Deprivation of Essential Experiences / 109 - The blind search for the missed expenences in every corner of life - The hard drug-addict's secret - Myths of the fall of man - The two steps away from the state of grace: Man's evolved ability to make an intellectual choice & civilized man's derailment from the continuum - Relief from thinking, meditation, ritual, and other thought erasers. SIX : Society / 137 - Cultures that suit and cultures that conflict with the continuum - Conformity. reliability. the right not to be bored - Whatever became of joy? SEVEN : Putting Continuum Principles Back to Work / 151 - Sex and "affection": distinguishing between the two needs for physical contact t As need continues, so does the possibility of fulfillment - Understanding and defining our needs from the continuum standpoint - Obstacles In our present way of life - The rights of babies - Approaches to reinstating the continuum In ways open to us - Applications of these principles to research INDEX / 165 `Excerpt from this book; Page 1: "This book is meant to propound an idea, not tell a story, but I think there is a purpose to be served in telling a little of my history, something of the preparation of the ground in which the concept took root. It may help explain how my views departed so far from those of the twentieth-century Americans among whom I grew up. I went to the South American jungles with no theory to prove, no more than normal curiosity about the Indians a

שנה

1986

שפה

English

הוצאה

Addison Wesley Publishing Company

מהדורות

3

עמודים

172

ISBN

9780201050714

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