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'''Toxic Socialization''' is a [[socialization]] process specifically designed to fracture attachments, undermine [[Self Esteem]], destroy [[Ego Boundaries|ego boundaries]], and disable the body's ability to contain higher levels of [[Consciousness]]. Toxic socialization undermines [[Development]] and damages the child by denying them satisfaction of needs and exposing them to violence and neglect that undermine the health and integrity of the [[Physical Unit]]. Toxic socialization is implemented in order to create a docile and compliant [[Physical Unit]] with low [[CQ]], willing to fit into the accumulation machinery of this planet (Sharp, 2013). Toxic socialization is characterized by:
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'''Toxic Socialization''' is a destructive socialization process intentionally designed by [[System Agents]] to undermine human potential and disable the body's ability to properly [[Connect]] and contain higher levels of [[Consciousness]]. The purpose of toxic socialization is to create damaged, diminished, compliant and easy-to-control individuals willing to sacrifice themselves to [[The System]]. It is  a process that is characterized by 1) [[neglect]] (of the [[Seven Essential Needs]]), 2) [[violence]]<ref>The deleterious effects of violence and neglect in childhood are well established. For a summary, see Sosteric. “Toxic Socialization.” Socjourn, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.</ref> 3) [[chaos]] (in the home environment), 4) parentification, 5) [[Indoctrination]], and 6) distortion/destruction of healthy family [[Destruction of Attachments|Attachment]]s. For a relatively complete explication, see the article [https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization Toxic Socialization]<ref>For more detail, see Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “Toxic Socialization,” 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.</ref>. 
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* Displacement of parents as primary role models and authority figures in the child's life
==Elements of Toxic Socialization==
* Destruction and/or degradation of primary attachments
* Violence and abuse. Violence and abuse includes physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual violence.
** '''physical abuse:''' hitting, biting, corporal punishment, prenatal exposure to drugs. sexual abuse: sexual contact or non-contact, sexual interference (Behl, Conyngham, & May, 2003)
** '''psychological abuse:''' abuse that impairs the mental life of the individual, including impairment of intelligence, memory, perception, attention, imagination, and moral development (O'Hagan, 1995).
** '''emotional abuse:''' o abuse that impairs/damages the emotional life of the individual, including their ability to properly regulate emotions, and to take responsibility, be confident, be open to others when appropriate, maintain appropriate boundaries, and trust. Emotional abuse includes verbal abuse, excessive demands, excessively harsh judgments, and other abuse patterns that impact the child’s ability to feel happy and healthy in their own skin (O'Hagan, 1995).
** '''spiritual abuse:'''
* [[Neglect]] 
** child neglect, failure to meet nutritional needs, inadequate food, shelter,
** emotional neglect, abandonment, failure to provide supervision
** medical neglect/psychological neglect/educational neglect (Behl et al., 2003)
* [[Indoctrination]]


Toxic Socialization damages the mental and emotional apparatus of the [[Physical Unit]]. From a [[Lightning Path]] perspective, the primary outcome is lower Consciousness in the body (i.e. lower [[CQ]]). Additional negatives include [[Energy System]] damage, bodily and mental debilitation, mental and physical dysfunction, and greater susceptibility to disease. Psychological, physical, emotional, and neurological outcomes are summarized below. 
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==Displacement of Parents==
==Syncretic Terms==


==Destruction and/or Degradation of Primary Attachments==
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==Violence and Abuse==
==Related LP Terms==


Violence and abuse, whether in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, leads to a host of negative emotional, psychological, and physical sequelea including '''unhealthy and risky behaviors''' (Annerbäck, Sahlqvist, Svedin, Wingren, & Gustafsson, 2012), '''adolescent delinquency''' (Trickett, Negriff, Ji, & Peckins, 2011), '''depression''' (Blain, Muench, Morgenstern, & Parsons, 2012; Christine Heim & Binder, 2012; Hosang et al., 2013; Kendler, Kuhn, & Prescott, 2004; Liu, Jager-Hyman, Wagner, Alloy, & Gibb, 2012), adult and adolescent '''alcohol dependence and abuse''' (Danielson et al., 2009; Oberleitner, Smith, Weinberger, Mazure, & McKee, 2015; Shin, Lee, Jeon, & Wills, 2015), '''anxiety''' (Blain et al., 2012), '''eating disorders''' (Burns, Fischer, Jackson, & Harding, 2012), '''personality disorders''' (Wingenfeld et al., 2011), '''post-traumatic stress disorder''' (C Heim & Nemeroff, 1999; Zanarini et al., 1997)  '''suicide ideation and suicide attempts''' (De Sanctis, Nomura, Newcorn, & Halperin, 2012), '''non suicidal self injury''' (NSSI) (Swannell et al., 2012), '''lower grade performance in school''' (Strøm, Thoresen, Wentzel-Larsen, & Dyb, 2013), '''lower IQ scores''' (Bee et al., 1982; de Oliveira, Scarpari, dos Santos, & Scivoletto, 2012),  '''dysfunctional personal relationships''' (i.e. fear of intimacy, lack of closeness, lack of affection, and intimacy in relationships) (DiLillo, Lewis, & Loreto-Colgan, 2007) and even '''increased incidence of physical disease''' (Cuijpers et al., 2011; Hager & Runtz, 2012), '''angina''' (Eslick, Koloski, & Talley, 2011), and '''heart trouble''' (Fuller-Thomson, Bejan, Hunter, Grundland, & Brennenstuhl, 2012; Fuller-Thomson, Brennenstuhl, & Frank, 2010; Hosang et al., 2013).
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A substantial literature makes a clear connection between physical abuse in particular, and violent acting out. As one author notes, “….individuals who were maltreated in childhood were almost twice as likely as matched controls to perpetrate criminal violent behavior…We also found that individuals with histories of childhood abuse and/or neglect were almost three times more likely than matched controls to perpetrate child abuse” (Milaniak & Widom, 2015, p. 252).
==Non-LP Related Terms==
Violence and abuse does not have to be physical. Verbal and emotional abuse contributes to the same sorts of emotional, psychological, and physical damage as noted above (Wang & Kenny, 2014, p. 917). In addition, simply witnessing violence in toxic households can cause problems. As one author notes, “Witnessing high levels of discord and conflict increases children's risk for a wide array of psychological problems including internalizing (e.g., depression, anxiety) and externalizing (e.g., aggression, conduct problems) problems” (Davies, Sturge-Apple, Bascoe, & Cummings, 2014). The risk of witnessing violence and discord should not be downplayed since the “risk conferred by frequent interparental hostility and discord is almost twice the size of the risk associated with divorce!” (Davies et al., 2014). Indeed, “…interparental conflict is a better predictor of child adjustment problems than marital dissolution or global measures of marital dissatisfaction” (E. Mark Cummings, Dukewich, Cummings, & Dukewich., 2001).


And note, one does not have to actually experience violence and toxicity to be effected. Simply witnessing violence and conflict (including parental discord and conflict) can have a negative physical, emotional, and psychological impact (Davies et al., 2014). Also note, '''the family is not the only site where toxic socialization processes impact child and adolescent development and health'''. Exposure to peer victimization is also an important stressor (Solberg & Olweus, 2003), as is bullying by teachers (Sosteric, 2012), and even toxic competitive environments (Kohn, 1986 [1992]). Peer victimization and abuse can be physical (e.g., hitting), verbal (e.g., name calling), or relational (e.g., social ostracism) (Card & Hodges, 2008) and encompasses emotional, psychological, and also spiritual abuse. Be aware, this is not an innocuous part of growing up. It is not just “boys being boys” and “girls being girls.” Victimization at school (by peers or by teachers) can have adverse effects on multiple aspects of development (Rudolph et al., 2014, p. 124). Toxic socialization at school exacerbates the impact of toxic environments at home and is associated with '''academic maladjustment''', '''absenteeism''', '''low academic ability''', '''lower scores on standardized tests''', '''school avoidance''', and '''destruction of self-esteem''' (Glover, Gough, Johnson, & Cartwright, 2000).
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==Neglect==
==Notes==


Actual emotional, physical, mental, or spiritual violence and abuse cause profound damage to the physical unit, but simple lack of care and neglect causes profound damage as well. When children are neglected, basic needs, like the need for safe housing, food, and rest, are not met. Lack of safety and the biological stress associated with deprivation undermines the physical and mental development of the child, but the damaging impact of neglect can arise from lack of physical contact and love as well. For example, studies all the way back into the 1980s demonstrate the critical biological and psychological significance of touch, caressing, love, and human contact. Children who get their needs met, including their need for human contact, do better, They weight more, are more physically active, have higher IQs (Chisholm, 1998), showed superior cognitive ability, and had better language function (Bee et al., 1982). By contrast, children and adults who do not receive sufficient human touch are stunted and damaged. Goleman (1988), a New York Times reporter summarizing extant research, noted that “In some of the most dramatic new findings, premature infants who were massaged for 15 minutes three times a day gained weight 47 percent faster than others who were left alone in their incubators - the usual practice in the past. The massaged infants also showed signs that the nervous system was maturing more rapidly: they became more active than the other babies and more responsive to such things as a face or a rattle.”
Toxic socialization is a colonial/imperial/European socialization process implemented in order to damage human beings and make them more compliant, malleable, and subservient. A damaged human being is more likely to accept rote, demeaning, and exploitive working conditions found in Capitalist enterprises. A damaged human being is easier to manipulate and control.  


Lack of appropriate parental contact and neglect also leads to '''growth impairment, '''risk of''' metabolic syndrome'''  (Johnson & Gunnar, 2011), '''impaired/altered neuroendocrine functioning''', and altered '''cortisol''' responses (stress hormone) levels (Dozier et al., 2006). As Dozier et al. (2006, p. 195) note, “Low cortisol levels have been associated with conduct disorder among children, emerging antisocial behaviors among adolescents, and psychopathy among adults….Thus, our results suggest the possibility that conditions associated with foster care may foster a neurobiology that predisposes to conduct disorder and psychopathy.” Notably, the alteration and impairment that results from fractured attachment and neglect may persist for at least several years (Dozier et al., 2006).
As Fanon pointed out in the ''Wretched of the Earth'', toxic socialization "is a totalitarian systemic negation of the colonized, and is enforced by systemic [and we would add neglect] in all areas of life." <ref>Gibson, N.C., and R. Beneduce. Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. p. 7.</ref>


As one author notes, neglect is so serious that children who are not provided with physical contact may even die as a result of their neglect. “About 1/3 of babies placed in the barest orphanages can actually die as a result” (Perry & Szalavitz, 2010; Szalavitz, 2010). Even if death is not the result, people experience a lifetime of struggle, and increased challenges into their old age. As Gregory E. Miller, Edit Chen, and Karen J. Parker (2011, p. 959) note, those who are exposed to major psychological stressors in early life suffer “elevated rates of morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases of aging.” As they note “The most compelling data come from studies of children raised in poverty or maltreated by their parents, who show heightened vulnerability to vascular disease, autoimmune disorders, and premature mortality.”
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Schreber Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber] is a German physician who actually advocated a horrific form of Toxic Socialization. Mom Katya Degrieck<ref>Degrieck, Katya. “Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber Archives.” Motherhood (blog). Accessed May 7, 2019. http://motherhoodinpointoffact.com/tag/dr-daniel-gottlieb-moritz-schreber/.</ref> provides some interesting commentary, including the insight that the popularity of his methods likely contributed to the easy growth of fascism in pre-WWII Germany! If that is not an argument for the global abolition of all toxic socialization practices, I don't know what is.


Most notable is the negative impact on human empathy, attachment, and social functioning that arises from neglect. One study found that “key brain neurobiological mechanisms of emotion, empathy, attachment, and social functioning [were] seriously damaged by simple lack of physical contact (read emotional, psychological, and physical neglect) in early infanthood.”(Fries, Ziegler, Kurian, Jacoris, & Pollak, 2005). In other words'', lack of appropriate and copious parental contact leads to problems empathizing, attaching, and connecting with others''.
Toxic socialization is encouraged in at least one passage in the Old Testament, [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+23:13-14 Proverbs 23: 13-14]


==Stress==
Martin Teicher provides a fascinating and compelling look at the neurological ''damage'' caused by violence and neglect in childhood.<Ref>Teicher, Martin. “Scars That Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse.” Scientific American, 2002. https://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/ccjj/Committees/JuvenileTF/Handout/ScarsThatWontHeal-NeurobiologyOfChildAbuse.pdf.</ref> His article is particularly interesting because he notes the damage is actually adaptive and "sculps" the brain to respond in ways that although they are toxic and antisocial, nevertheless are adaptive for the organism as a whole.


Researchers are still working to determine neurological and biological pathways between abuse, violence, neglect, and emotional, physical and psychological damage. One of the pathways that is rapidly being established is a hormonal pathway. Stressful and abusive environments lead to what researchers call ''allostatic load''. Allostatic load is essentially the wear and tear on the body’s biological systems that results when the body is exposed to chronic and repeated stress. Allostatic load thus represents the physiological, psychological, and emotional consequences of amplified neuroendocrine responses resulting from chronic stress.  
Oscar Ichazo notes that the bodily ego becomes distorted and sick as a consequence of toxic socialization. "A person retains the purity of essence for a short time. It is lost between four and six years of age when the child begins to imitate his parents, tell lies, and pretend. A contradiction developers between the inner feelings of the child and the outer social reality to which he must conform. Ego consciousness is the limited mode of awareness that develops as a result of the fall into society. Personality forms a defensive layer over the essence and the world. The ego feels the world as alien and dangerous because it constantly fails to satisfy the deeper needs of the self."<ref>Keen, Sam. “Breaking the Tyranny of the Ego.” In Interviews with Oscar Ichazo. New York: Arica Institute Press, 1982. https://amzn.to/2MOwleU. p. 9</ref>


Chronic stress caused by abuse, assault, insecure environments, insecure attachments, unmet needs, and so on leads to allostatic load which in turn leads to damaging alterations in the hormone system of the physical body, for example causing dysregulated patterns of cortisol output (Gregory E. Miller, Edith Chen, & Karen J. Parker, 2011). Cortisol is a hormone important in a number of areas of biological function, including the body’s response to stress and environmental risk. Cortisol is implicated in the body’s “fight or flight” mechanisms and acute release of cortisol in response to stress is short term positive. Cortisol helps maintain mental alertness and make energy available in the bloodstream for use in stressful situations (Conradt et al., 2014). However, ''chronic activation of the body’s systems causes wear and tear, and increases the likelihood of disease'' (Conradt et al., 2014) and other physical dysfunctions, including metabolic syndrome, chronic inflammation,'''insulin resistance and weight gain''' (Weber-Hamann et al., 2002), '''suppressed immune function''', and''' gastrointestinal problems''',''' '''and '''Irritable Bowel Syndrome''' (Aronson, 2009). As one author notes, the physical consequences of allostatic load are severe: “Allostatic load leads to impaired immunity, atherosclerosis, obesity, bone demineralization, and atrophy of nerve cells in brain. Allostatic load is seen in major depressive illness and may also be expressed in other chronic anxiety disorders such as PTSD and should be documented” (McEwen, 2003).
In an interesting nineteen seventy-five, James Prescott published a study suggesting the link between childhood violence and neglect, and adulthood violence and war. In the conclusion, the author says, "The competitive ethic, which teaches children that they must advance at the expense of others, should be replaced by values of cooperation and a pursuit of excellence for its own sake. We must raise children to be emotionally capable of giving love and affection, rather than to exploit others."<ref>Prescott, James W. “Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence.” The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, 1975, 10–20. http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html</ref>


Notably, it is not the just the physical body that is harmed by the stress and violence of toxic socialization. '''Brain damage occurs as well'''. When experimenters stress rodents by restraining them for six hour periods, rat brains change. Neurogenesis (i.e. the building of new brain cells) is suppressed and the number of neurons in dentate gyrus declines (McEwan, 2003). Besides suppressing neurogenesis, daily stress reduces branching and length of dendrites and neurons in the brain (McEwan (Lupien, McEwen, Gunnar, & Heim, 2009), 2003). Stress thus causes structural changes (i.e. damage) to the human brain, and these structural changes have many behavioural, psychological, emotional, and physical effects (Sousa, Lukoyanov, Madeira, Almeida, & Paula-Barbosa, 2000, p. 253). As McEwen (2006) notes: “Allostatic overload resulting from chronic stress in animal models causes atrophy of neurons in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, brain regions involved in memory, selective attention, and executive function, and causes hypertrophy of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in fear and anxiety, as well as aggression. Thus, the ability to learn and remember and make decisions may be compromised by chronic stress, and may be accompanied by increased levels of anxiety and aggression.” McEwan continues: “The cognitive impairment is likely to be related to the structural changes in the hippocampus…whereas the anxiety, fear, and aggression may be due to changes in the amygdala” (McEwen, 2003). Notably, the greater the stress, greater the effect (Moss, Vanyukov, Yao, & Kirillova, 1999)
'''Freud''' recognizes toxic elements in "civilization" and even admits that it is society and its "defects" which has made people "embittered, revengeful and inaccessible." He admits the possibility that with healthier socialization, in a process where individuals "have been brought up in kindness and taught to have a high opinion of reason, and who have experienced the benefits of civilization at an early age," individuals might come to have better attitudes. He concludes that the re-education effort to attain this goal is impossibly massive and, in any case, the extant elites were simply incapable of such a feat.  


Stress impacts throughout adulthood, but is particularly damaging to children. “Early life experiences perhaps carry an even greater weight in terms of how an individual reacts to new situations. Early life physical and sexual abuse imposes a life-long burden of behavioral and pathophysiological problems. Cold and uncaring families produce long-lasting emotional problems in children. Some of these effects are seen on brain structure and function, and in the risk for later depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” (McEwen, 2006).
'''Toxic socialization stunts and damages the [[Physical Unit]].''' It damages the [[Bodily Ego]] and causes


==Sleep Deprivation==
* [[PSST]] - Psychosocialspiritual trauma
* [[Fractured Attachments]]
* [[Physical Illness]]
* [[Disjuncture]]
* Lower IQ
* Lower [[CQ]]
* [[Addictions]]
* [[Robotization]]
*Depression<ref>Nikki Main, “Everybody in the US Is Getting Depressed, CDC Says,” ''Gizmodo'', 1686865520, <nowiki>https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-us-getting-depressed-cdc-214520272.ht</nowiki></ref>
* Premature aging
*Alexithymia.<ref>Ditzer, Julia, Eileen Y. Wong, Rhea N. Modi, Maciej Behnke, James J. Gross, and Anat Talmon. “Child Maltreatment and Alexithymia: A Meta-Analytic Review.” ''Psychological Bulletin'' 149, no. 5–6 (2023): 311–29. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000391</nowiki></ref>


Another neurobiological factor besides stress to consider is sleep deprivation. When stressful environments are present in the home or at school (i.e. physical abuse, fighting, yelling, assault, walking on egg shells, etc.) sleep problems ensue. Sleep deprivation contributes synergistically to allostatic load. Sleep deprivation increases blood pressure, increases cortisol and insulin levels, increases appetite, and has been associated with obesity (McEwen, 2006). Indeed, with respect to memory and cognitive performance, there are numerous reports of impairments following sleep deprivation (McEwen, 2006). Sleep deprivation has also been associated with increases in fighting behavior (de Paula & Hoshino, 2002), impaired physical, psychological, and emotional health, and increased stress, cortisol levels, temporal lobe atrophy (Cho, 2001), chronic disease, elevated mortality risk (Carroll et al., 2016), senescence, accelerated aging (Carroll et al., 2016), structural changes to the brain, and cognitive impairment (Rosenberg, Maximov, Reske, Grinberg, & Shah, 2014)
Toxic socialization disconnects. "The most important obstacle to that kind of openness is a history of traumatic experiences that lead to emotional and physical blockages, a kind of Reichian armoring that separates us from the rest of the world."<Ref>Laszlo, Ervin, Stanislav Grof, and Peter Russell. The Consciousness Revolution. Las Vegas: Elf Rock Productions, 1999. https://amzn.to/2TlOCmC.</ref>


==See Also==
'''Toxic socialization''' is required by [[The System]], important for [[System Maintenance]], actuated through indoctrination of an [[Old Energy Creation Template]], and supported by [[Intergenerational Toxicity]] (a.k.a. toxic "traditions")


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"Spare the rod and spoil the child" is an admonishment to expose children to violence, an admonishment to Toxic Socialization.


==Further Reading==
Toxic socialization is implemented in order to create a docile and compliant [[Physical Unit]] with low [[CQ]], willing to fit into the accumulation machinery of this planet (Sosteric, 2016).


Neufeld, Gorden & Mate, Gabor (2013). ''Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers''. Vintage Canada.
Abraham Maslow had a nascent sense of toxic socialization. He "generally ... believed that the social environment inhibits rather than facilitates [[Self-actualization]], for example by frustrating the lower needs, encouraging defensiveness, or masking the real self with an idealized self."<ref>Daniels, M. “The Development of the Concept of Self-Actualization in the Writings of Abraham Maslow.” Current Psychological Perspectives 2 (1982): 71.</ref> Maslow felt that a "culture gone bad" suppressed "love, kindness, and tenderness" and inhibited authentic human actualization<ref>Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 7.</ref> He suggested the need to consider the development of a ''Eupsychia'' or a "psychologically healthy culture" that encourages full human development, in particular, the expression of higher human needs and values.<ref>Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 1-2.</ref>


Sosteric, Mike (2012). The Emotional Abuse of Our Children. Teachers, Schools, and the Sanctioned Violence of our Modern Institutions. ''Socjournal''' [http://www.sociology.org/the-emotional-abuse-of-our-children-teachers-schools-and-the-sanctioned-violence-of-our-modern-institutions/]
Maslow noted "I find children, up to the time they are spoiled and flattened out by the culture, nicer, better, more attractive human beings than their elders..."  <ref>Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 274.</ref>


==References==
Again Maslow noted that toxic socialization wasn't necessary. "Culture is ''not'' intrinsically at sword's points with man's deepest impulses. It is ''not'' necessarily an instrument for taming, restraining, or inhibiting mankind, but could be, and I think, we'll be, seen as an instrument for more efficient satisfaction of man's deepest needs and impulses; in a word ''not'' "instinct" controlling but "instinct" gratifying. The fact that today our culture is in truth opposed to our basic impulses I regard as in part an artifact resulting from the incorrect conception not only of "instinct" but also of culture. It is an accident, ''not'' an inherent necessity.”<ref> Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 276.</ref>


Afifi, T. O., Taillieu, T., Kristene, C., Katz, L. Y., Tonmyr, L., & Sareen, J. (2015). Substantiated Reports of Child Maltreatment From the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2008: Examining Child and Household Characteristics and Child Functional Impairment. ''Rapports documentés de maltraitance d'enfants tirés de l'Étude canadienne sur l'incidence des signalements de cas de violence et de négligence envers les enfants de 2008 : examen des caractéristiques de l'enfant et du ménage, et de la déficience fonctionnelle de l'enfant, 60''(7), 315-323.  
Again, Maslow "...the impulses to hate, to be jealous, to be hostile, to be greedy, to be egoistic and selfish, are now being discovered more and more clearly to be acquired and not instinctive. They are almost certainly neurotic and sick reactions to bad situations, more specifically to frustrations of our truly basic and instinct-like needs and impulses."<ref>Maslow, A.H. “Our Maligned Animal Nature.” Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 273. p. 276</ref>


Annerbäck, E. M., Sahlqvist, L., Svedin, C. G., Wingren, G., & Gustafsson, P. A. (2012). Child physical abuse and concurrence of other types of child abuse in Sweden—Associations with health and risk behaviors. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(7–8), 585-595. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.05.006
Abraham Maslow distinguished between "coping," which is a response to toxic environments, and expression, which can occur only in positive environments.<ref>Maslow.“The Expressive Component of Behavior.” Psychological Review 56, no. 5 (September 1949): 261–72. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0053630.</ref>


Aronson, D. (2009). Cortisol--Its Role in Stress, Inflammation, an Indications for Diet Therapy. ''Today's Dietitian, 11''(11), 38.  
Maslow: Humans basically good, the System fucks them up. "This inner nature, as much as we know of it so far, seems not to be intrinsically or primarily or necessarily evil. The basic needs (for life, for safety and security, for belongingness and affection, for respect and self-respect, and for self-actualization), the basic human emotions and the basic human capacities are on their face either neutral, pre-moral or positively “good.” Destructiveness, sadism, cruelty, malice, etc., seem so far to be not intrinsic but rather they seem to be violent reactions against frustration of our intrinsic needs, emotions and capacities.... Since this inner nature is good or neutral rather than bad, it is best to bring it out and to encourage it rather than to sup­ press it. If it is permitted to guide our life, we grow healthy, fruitful, and happy....If this essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later....This inner nature is not strong and overpowering and un­ mistakable like the instincts of animals. It is weak and delicate and subtle and easily overcome by habit, cultural pressure, and wrong attitudes toward it."<ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 3</ref>


Bee, H. L., Barnard, K. E., Eyres, S. J., Gray, C. A., Hammond, M. A., Spietz, A. L., . . . Clark, B. (1982). Prediction of IQ and Language Skill from Perinatal Status, Child Performance, Family Characteristics, and Mother-Infant Interaction. ''Child Dev, 53''(5), 1134-1156. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.ep8587753
John Lennon wrote [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMewtlmkV6c Working Class Hero] which is a discussion of Toxic Socialization in the context of social class exploitation.


Blain, L. M., Muench, F., Morgenstern, J., & Parsons, J. T. (2012). Exploring the role of child sexual abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in gay and bisexual men reporting compulsive sexual behavior. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(5), 413-422. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.03.003
The song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-dv_Wl7og wage slaves] is about breaking the shackles that hold workers down in a system that depends on the diminishment of people through manipulation and constant demeaning, to service the greed of by people in powerful positions. (VJB).


Burns, E. E., Fischer, S., Jackson, J. L., & Harding, H. G. (2012). Deficits in emotion regulation mediate the relationship between childhood abuse and later eating disorder symptoms. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(1), 32-39. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.08.005
The toxic quality of western cultures is recognized by others. A Samoan chief, for example, writes that in Samoan culture, "grey hair comes very slowly, not in youth, as it comes to the white man.<ref>Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa (Perennial Classics) (p. 46). William Morrow. Kindle Edition. "</ref>


Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E. (2008). Peer victimization among schoolchildren: Correlations, causes, consequences, and considerations in assessment and intervention. ''School Psychology Quarterly, 23''(4), 451-461. doi: 10.1037/a0012769
You need sleep to regenerate. A system that encourages workaholism, 35+ hours, interferes with sleep https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-now-know-how-sleep-cleans-toxins-from-the-brain/?mbid=social_tw_sci&utm_brand=wired-science&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter


Carroll, J. E., Cole, S. W., Seeman, T. E., Breen, E. C., Witarama, T., Arevalo, J. M. G., . . . Irwin, M. R. (2016). Partial sleep deprivation activates the DNA damage response (DDR) and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in aged adult humans. ''Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 51'', 223-229. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2015.08.024
Madame Blavatsky of Theosophical fame recognizes that violence and harming against an individual has serious repercussions, not only for the individual but for all of society . "Therefore, we say, that unless every man is brought to understand and accept as an axiomatic truth that by wronging one man we wrong not only ourselves but the whole of humanity in the long run, no brotherly feelings such as preached by all the great Reformers, pre-eminently by Buddha and Jesus, are possible on earth."<Ref>Blavatsky, H. P. The Key to Theosophy: A Clear Exposition Based on the Wisdom Religion of All Ages. Theosophical University Press, 1889.</ref>


Chisholm, K. (1998). A three year follow-up of attachment and indiscriminate friendliness in children adopted from Romanian orphanages. ''Child Dev, 69''(4), 1092-1106.  
Interestingly, prior to WWII in Germany, a Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber advocated a horrific form of socialization, a “systematic approach close to torture” (Degrieck, 2015). The goal was unconditional obedience through harsh discipline—complete submission of the child.  


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“You will be master of the child forever. From then on, a glance, a word, a single threatening gesture will be sufficient to control the child,” Dr. Schreber.


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This toxic socialization advocated by Schreber, a socialization process that destroyed his own child, may have contributed to the emotional wreckage that facilitated the rise of Hitler.  


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Toxic Socialization is a destructive socialization process intentionally designed by System Agents to undermine human potential and disable the body's ability to properly Connect and contain higher levels of Consciousness. The purpose of toxic socialization is to create damaged, diminished, compliant and easy-to-control individuals willing to sacrifice themselves to The System. It is a process that is characterized by 1) neglect (of the Seven Essential Needs), 2) violence[1] 3) chaos (in the home environment), 4) parentification, 5) Indoctrination, and 6) distortion/destruction of healthy family Attachments. For a relatively complete explication, see the article Toxic Socialization[2].

Elements of Toxic Socialization

Toxic Socialization > Chaos, Destruction of Attachments, Indoctrination, Neglect, Parentification, Violence

Syncretic Terms

Toxic Socialization > Poisonous Pedagogy

Related LP Terms

Toxic Socialization > Connection Blockage, Defence Mechanisms, Disconnection, Disjuncture, Healing Burden, Healthy Socialization, Misalignment, Prism Metaphor, Regime of Accumulation, Stages of Human Development, The Great Gork, Toxic Burden, Toxicity Score

Non-LP Related Terms

Toxic Socialization > Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, Authority

Notes

Toxic socialization is a colonial/imperial/European socialization process implemented in order to damage human beings and make them more compliant, malleable, and subservient. A damaged human being is more likely to accept rote, demeaning, and exploitive working conditions found in Capitalist enterprises. A damaged human being is easier to manipulate and control.

As Fanon pointed out in the Wretched of the Earth, toxic socialization "is a totalitarian systemic negation of the colonized, and is enforced by systemic [and we would add neglect] in all areas of life." [3]

Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber is a German physician who actually advocated a horrific form of Toxic Socialization. Mom Katya Degrieck[4] provides some interesting commentary, including the insight that the popularity of his methods likely contributed to the easy growth of fascism in pre-WWII Germany! If that is not an argument for the global abolition of all toxic socialization practices, I don't know what is.

Toxic socialization is encouraged in at least one passage in the Old Testament, Proverbs 23: 13-14

Martin Teicher provides a fascinating and compelling look at the neurological damage caused by violence and neglect in childhood.[5] His article is particularly interesting because he notes the damage is actually adaptive and "sculps" the brain to respond in ways that although they are toxic and antisocial, nevertheless are adaptive for the organism as a whole.

Oscar Ichazo notes that the bodily ego becomes distorted and sick as a consequence of toxic socialization. "A person retains the purity of essence for a short time. It is lost between four and six years of age when the child begins to imitate his parents, tell lies, and pretend. A contradiction developers between the inner feelings of the child and the outer social reality to which he must conform. Ego consciousness is the limited mode of awareness that develops as a result of the fall into society. Personality forms a defensive layer over the essence and the world. The ego feels the world as alien and dangerous because it constantly fails to satisfy the deeper needs of the self."[6]

In an interesting nineteen seventy-five, James Prescott published a study suggesting the link between childhood violence and neglect, and adulthood violence and war. In the conclusion, the author says, "The competitive ethic, which teaches children that they must advance at the expense of others, should be replaced by values of cooperation and a pursuit of excellence for its own sake. We must raise children to be emotionally capable of giving love and affection, rather than to exploit others."[7]

Freud recognizes toxic elements in "civilization" and even admits that it is society and its "defects" which has made people "embittered, revengeful and inaccessible." He admits the possibility that with healthier socialization, in a process where individuals "have been brought up in kindness and taught to have a high opinion of reason, and who have experienced the benefits of civilization at an early age," individuals might come to have better attitudes. He concludes that the re-education effort to attain this goal is impossibly massive and, in any case, the extant elites were simply incapable of such a feat.

Toxic socialization stunts and damages the Physical Unit. It damages the Bodily Ego and causes

Toxic socialization disconnects. "The most important obstacle to that kind of openness is a history of traumatic experiences that lead to emotional and physical blockages, a kind of Reichian armoring that separates us from the rest of the world."[10]

Toxic socialization is required by The System, important for System Maintenance, actuated through indoctrination of an Old Energy Creation Template, and supported by Intergenerational Toxicity (a.k.a. toxic "traditions")

"Spare the rod and spoil the child" is an admonishment to expose children to violence, an admonishment to Toxic Socialization.

Toxic socialization is implemented in order to create a docile and compliant Physical Unit with low CQ, willing to fit into the accumulation machinery of this planet (Sosteric, 2016).

Abraham Maslow had a nascent sense of toxic socialization. He "generally ... believed that the social environment inhibits rather than facilitates Self-actualization, for example by frustrating the lower needs, encouraging defensiveness, or masking the real self with an idealized self."[11] Maslow felt that a "culture gone bad" suppressed "love, kindness, and tenderness" and inhibited authentic human actualization[12] He suggested the need to consider the development of a Eupsychia or a "psychologically healthy culture" that encourages full human development, in particular, the expression of higher human needs and values.[13]

Maslow noted "I find children, up to the time they are spoiled and flattened out by the culture, nicer, better, more attractive human beings than their elders..." [14]

Again Maslow noted that toxic socialization wasn't necessary. "Culture is not intrinsically at sword's points with man's deepest impulses. It is not necessarily an instrument for taming, restraining, or inhibiting mankind, but could be, and I think, we'll be, seen as an instrument for more efficient satisfaction of man's deepest needs and impulses; in a word not "instinct" controlling but "instinct" gratifying. The fact that today our culture is in truth opposed to our basic impulses I regard as in part an artifact resulting from the incorrect conception not only of "instinct" but also of culture. It is an accident, not an inherent necessity.”[15]

Again, Maslow "...the impulses to hate, to be jealous, to be hostile, to be greedy, to be egoistic and selfish, are now being discovered more and more clearly to be acquired and not instinctive. They are almost certainly neurotic and sick reactions to bad situations, more specifically to frustrations of our truly basic and instinct-like needs and impulses."[16]

Abraham Maslow distinguished between "coping," which is a response to toxic environments, and expression, which can occur only in positive environments.[17]

Maslow: Humans basically good, the System fucks them up. "This inner nature, as much as we know of it so far, seems not to be intrinsically or primarily or necessarily evil. The basic needs (for life, for safety and security, for belongingness and affection, for respect and self-respect, and for self-actualization), the basic human emotions and the basic human capacities are on their face either neutral, pre-moral or positively “good.” Destructiveness, sadism, cruelty, malice, etc., seem so far to be not intrinsic but rather they seem to be violent reactions against frustration of our intrinsic needs, emotions and capacities.... Since this inner nature is good or neutral rather than bad, it is best to bring it out and to encourage it rather than to sup­ press it. If it is permitted to guide our life, we grow healthy, fruitful, and happy....If this essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later....This inner nature is not strong and overpowering and un­ mistakable like the instincts of animals. It is weak and delicate and subtle and easily overcome by habit, cultural pressure, and wrong attitudes toward it."[18]

John Lennon wrote Working Class Hero which is a discussion of Toxic Socialization in the context of social class exploitation.

The song wage slaves is about breaking the shackles that hold workers down in a system that depends on the diminishment of people through manipulation and constant demeaning, to service the greed of by people in powerful positions. (VJB).

The toxic quality of western cultures is recognized by others. A Samoan chief, for example, writes that in Samoan culture, "grey hair comes very slowly, not in youth, as it comes to the white man.[19]

You need sleep to regenerate. A system that encourages workaholism, 35+ hours, interferes with sleep https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-now-know-how-sleep-cleans-toxins-from-the-brain/?mbid=social_tw_sci&utm_brand=wired-science&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter

Madame Blavatsky of Theosophical fame recognizes that violence and harming against an individual has serious repercussions, not only for the individual but for all of society . "Therefore, we say, that unless every man is brought to understand and accept as an axiomatic truth that by wronging one man we wrong not only ourselves but the whole of humanity in the long run, no brotherly feelings such as preached by all the great Reformers, pre-eminently by Buddha and Jesus, are possible on earth."[20]

Interestingly, prior to WWII in Germany, a Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber advocated a horrific form of socialization, a “systematic approach close to torture” (Degrieck, 2015). The goal was unconditional obedience through harsh discipline—complete submission of the child.

“You will be master of the child forever. From then on, a glance, a word, a single threatening gesture will be sufficient to control the child,” Dr. Schreber.

This toxic socialization advocated by Schreber, a socialization process that destroyed his own child, may have contributed to the emotional wreckage that facilitated the rise of Hitler.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The deleterious effects of violence and neglect in childhood are well established. For a summary, see Sosteric. “Toxic Socialization.” Socjourn, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.
  2. ↑ For more detail, see Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “Toxic Socialization,” 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.
  3. ↑ Gibson, N.C., and R. Beneduce. Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. p. 7.
  4. ↑ Degrieck, Katya. “Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber Archives.” Motherhood (blog). Accessed May 7, 2019. http://motherhoodinpointoffact.com/tag/dr-daniel-gottlieb-moritz-schreber/.
  5. ↑ Teicher, Martin. “Scars That Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse.” Scientific American, 2002. https://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/ccjj/Committees/JuvenileTF/Handout/ScarsThatWontHeal-NeurobiologyOfChildAbuse.pdf.
  6. ↑ Keen, Sam. “Breaking the Tyranny of the Ego.” In Interviews with Oscar Ichazo. New York: Arica Institute Press, 1982. https://amzn.to/2MOwleU. p. 9
  7. ↑ Prescott, James W. “Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence.” The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, 1975, 10–20. http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html
  8. ↑ Nikki Main, “Everybody in the US Is Getting Depressed, CDC Says,” Gizmodo, 1686865520, https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-us-getting-depressed-cdc-214520272.ht
  9. ↑ Ditzer, Julia, Eileen Y. Wong, Rhea N. Modi, Maciej Behnke, James J. Gross, and Anat Talmon. “Child Maltreatment and Alexithymia: A Meta-Analytic Review.” Psychological Bulletin 149, no. 5–6 (2023): 311–29. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000391
  10. ↑ Laszlo, Ervin, Stanislav Grof, and Peter Russell. The Consciousness Revolution. Las Vegas: Elf Rock Productions, 1999. https://amzn.to/2TlOCmC.
  11. ↑ Daniels, M. “The Development of the Concept of Self-Actualization in the Writings of Abraham Maslow.” Current Psychological Perspectives 2 (1982): 71.
  12. ↑ Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 7.
  13. ↑ Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 1-2.
  14. ↑ Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 274.
  15. ↑ Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 276.
  16. ↑ Maslow, A.H. “Our Maligned Animal Nature.” Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 273. p. 276
  17. ↑ Maslow.“The Expressive Component of Behavior.” Psychological Review 56, no. 5 (September 1949): 261–72. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0053630.
  18. ↑ Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 3
  19. ↑ Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa (Perennial Classics) (p. 46). William Morrow. Kindle Edition. "
  20. ↑ Blavatsky, H. P. The Key to Theosophy: A Clear Exposition Based on the Wisdom Religion of All Ages. Theosophical University Press, 1889.








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