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'''Needs''' are physiological, psychological, emotional, and spiritual requirements necessary to the health, well-being, and full development of the [[Physical Unit]] | '''Needs''' are physiological, psychological, emotional, and spiritual requirements necessary to the health, well-being, and full development of the [[Physical Unit]]. | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Ryan and Deci define a need as "something that, when fulfilled, promotes integration | |||
and well-being and, when thwarted, fosters fragmentation and ill-being..." <ref>Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. “The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept.” ''Psychological Inquiry'' 11, no. 4 (2000): 324.</ref> This definition deliberately excludes needs that operate at the physical level, saying that they are concerned with the health and growth of the self only. This conceptualization, while keeping things parsimonious, fails to consider the physical atrophy and neurological damage that occurs in unsafe environment. | |||
Ryan and Deci also exclude the need for self-esteem as a need, suggesting it is the outcome of needs satisfaction, "an indicator of eudaimonic well-being rather than | |||
a need." (p. 326). They fail to consider the psychological function of high self-esteem which contributes to one's sense of efficacy and power in the world, both of which help create the psychological and emotional conditions for healty self. It is imperative that parents and teachers foster self-esteem in children and adolescents so they feel secure in their ability to have an influence upon, even control, their world. <ref>Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci, “The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept,” ''Psychological Inquiry'' 11, no. 4 (2000): 319–38, https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_03;</ref> | |||
Ryan and Deci note that "...myriad forms of adjustment problems and mental illnesses. these include eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and morbid obesity; rigid character disorders such as paranoia and obsessive-compulsive personality and conduct disorders....In short, specific patterns of thwarted need satisfaction are key psychological contributors to extreme as well as mild versions of these and many other mental disorders and their behavioral manifestations. We maintain further that individual differences in the more malevolent, heinous, and disheartening aspects of human behavior can regularly be traced to serious thwarting of the basic psychological needs during development.... For instance, strong evidence suggests that people who have become serial killers have typically suffered severe overcontrol, humiliation, neglect, or all of these from te individuals who should have cared for them at an early age."<ref>Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci, “The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept,” ''Psychological Inquiry'' 11, no. 4 (2000): 321, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_03</nowiki>;</ref> | |||
Satisfaction of needs leads to health, happiness, and longevity. Failure to satisfy even a single need leads to agitation, anxiety, depression, pathology, illness, and even death. | |||
Humans start with [[Seven Essential Needs]]. If they group in toxic environments and are subjected to [[Toxic Socialization]], additional [[Seven Toxic Needs|toxic needs]] develop. | Humans start with [[Seven Essential Needs]]. If they group in toxic environments and are subjected to [[Toxic Socialization]], additional [[Seven Toxic Needs|toxic needs]] develop. | ||
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Social: In childhood, '''all needs''' are met socially, i.e. by your relationship with someone else (specifically your parents). In adulthood, '''most needs''' are met socially, i.e., in mature relationships with equitable exchange. E.g., Our need for [[Self Esteem]] can only be met by the kind and uplifting words of others. Our need for [[Love]] can only be filled by mature, fully functioning, adults. | Social: In childhood, '''all needs''' are met socially, i.e. by your relationship with someone else (specifically your parents). In adulthood, '''most needs''' are met socially, i.e., in mature relationships with equitable exchange. E.g., Our need for [[Self Esteem]] can only be met by the kind and uplifting words of others. Our need for [[Love]] can only be filled by mature, fully functioning, adults. | ||
Adults: In adulthood individuals who have been properly nurtured and [[Socialization|socialized]] support their own [[Development]] and work towards satisfaction of their own needs by pursuing healthy social and/or intimate relationships. Adults who have been improperly socialized or damaged by toxic childhoods, require additional guidance and assistance, and possibly healing interventions. | Adults: In adulthood individuals who have been properly nurtured and [[Socialization|socialized]] support their own [[Development]] and work towards the satisfaction of their own needs by pursuing healthy social and/or intimate relationships. Adults who have been improperly socialized or damaged by toxic childhoods, require additional guidance and assistance, and possibly healing interventions. | ||
Children: Children are weak, undeveloped, innocent, naive, and vulnerable. Children are totally dependent on the adults in their life (i.e. parents, teachers, uncles, and aunts) to properly satisfy their needs. If the adults in a child's life are unhealthy, toxic, sick, the child experiences a [[Toxic Childhood]] where needs go unmet. Toxic childhood's can lead to disastrous consequences in adolescence and early childhood. | Children: Children are weak, undeveloped, innocent, naive, and vulnerable. Children are totally dependent on the adults in their life (i.e. parents, teachers, uncles, and aunts) to properly satisfy their needs. If the adults in a child's life are unhealthy, toxic, sick, the child experiences a [[Toxic Childhood]] where needs go unmet. Toxic childhood's can lead to disastrous consequences in adolescence and early childhood. | ||
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Guidance and Direction: In addition to a family and society geared towards satisfaction of needs, children also need positive support, encouragement, guidance and direction in order that they may learn to properly satisfy their needs as adults. By the time children are legal drinking age they should know how addictive certain substances are (i.e. alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, crack, etc.), they should understand their own needs, and they should have the basic skills so that they can satisfy these needs for themselves, either by seeking human contact, engaging in activity (to eat dinner, get love, have healthy sex, etc.). In other words parents (and society) need to specify the right way and the wrong way to do things, otherwise need satisfaction in adulthood becomes challenging for the individual. Obviously if guidance and direction is to be provided, parents and society must themselves know the right way and the wrong way to meet needs, and they must also be able to put human need satisfaction before all other things (including competition and profit). | Guidance and Direction: In addition to a family and society geared towards satisfaction of needs, children also need positive support, encouragement, guidance and direction in order that they may learn to properly satisfy their needs as adults. By the time children are legal drinking age they should know how addictive certain substances are (i.e. alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, crack, etc.), they should understand their own needs, and they should have the basic skills so that they can satisfy these needs for themselves, either by seeking human contact, engaging in activity (to eat dinner, get love, have healthy sex, etc.). In other words parents (and society) need to specify the right way and the wrong way to do things, otherwise need satisfaction in adulthood becomes challenging for the individual. Obviously if guidance and direction is to be provided, parents and society must themselves know the right way and the wrong way to meet needs, and they must also be able to put human need satisfaction before all other things (including competition and profit). | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:04, 1 September 2026
Needs
Needs are physiological, psychological, emotional, and spiritual requirements necessary to the health, well-being, and full development of the Physical Unit.
Concept Map
Key Terms
Lightning Path Human Development Framework >
- LP Connection Framework
- LP Creative Framework
- LP HEALING Framework
- LP Psychological Framework
- Pathfinder Educational Model
- Human Psyche
- Seven Essential Needs
- Circle of Self
- Physical Unit
- Human Development
- Connection-Centered Psychology
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Connection-Centered Parenting
- Ego Mode
- Active Need Fulfillment
- Basic Needs
- Dependent Need Fulfillment
- Disjuncture
- Ego Mode
- Essential Needs Rule Set
- Eudaimonia
- Growth Needs
- Inner Needs
- Needs
- Sufficient Satisfaction
Related LP Terms
Non-LP Related Terms
Needs > Physical Unit, Seven Essential Needs, Sufficient Satisfaction
Notes
Ryan and Deci define a need as "something that, when fulfilled, promotes integration and well-being and, when thwarted, fosters fragmentation and ill-being..." [1] This definition deliberately excludes needs that operate at the physical level, saying that they are concerned with the health and growth of the self only. This conceptualization, while keeping things parsimonious, fails to consider the physical atrophy and neurological damage that occurs in unsafe environment.
Ryan and Deci also exclude the need for self-esteem as a need, suggesting it is the outcome of needs satisfaction, "an indicator of eudaimonic well-being rather than a need." (p. 326). They fail to consider the psychological function of high self-esteem which contributes to one's sense of efficacy and power in the world, both of which help create the psychological and emotional conditions for healty self. It is imperative that parents and teachers foster self-esteem in children and adolescents so they feel secure in their ability to have an influence upon, even control, their world. [2]
Ryan and Deci note that "...myriad forms of adjustment problems and mental illnesses. these include eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and morbid obesity; rigid character disorders such as paranoia and obsessive-compulsive personality and conduct disorders....In short, specific patterns of thwarted need satisfaction are key psychological contributors to extreme as well as mild versions of these and many other mental disorders and their behavioral manifestations. We maintain further that individual differences in the more malevolent, heinous, and disheartening aspects of human behavior can regularly be traced to serious thwarting of the basic psychological needs during development.... For instance, strong evidence suggests that people who have become serial killers have typically suffered severe overcontrol, humiliation, neglect, or all of these from te individuals who should have cared for them at an early age."[3]
Satisfaction of needs leads to health, happiness, and longevity. Failure to satisfy even a single need leads to agitation, anxiety, depression, pathology, illness, and even death.
Humans start with Seven Essential Needs. If they group in toxic environments and are subjected to Toxic Socialization, additional toxic needs develop.
Pathology: When needs are satisfied, an individual naturally grows, matures, and connects with consciousness. When needs thwarted psychopathology ensues.
Sociology: Ruling class ideology, capitalist individualism, holds that humans are powerful individuals capable of surviving on their own and meeting their own needs. That is a lie. In fact, human needs can only be met in interdependent social relationship as a result of equitable Human Exchange.
Social: In childhood, all needs are met socially, i.e. by your relationship with someone else (specifically your parents). In adulthood, most needs are met socially, i.e., in mature relationships with equitable exchange. E.g., Our need for Self Esteem can only be met by the kind and uplifting words of others. Our need for Love can only be filled by mature, fully functioning, adults.
Adults: In adulthood individuals who have been properly nurtured and socialized support their own Development and work towards the satisfaction of their own needs by pursuing healthy social and/or intimate relationships. Adults who have been improperly socialized or damaged by toxic childhoods, require additional guidance and assistance, and possibly healing interventions.
Children: Children are weak, undeveloped, innocent, naive, and vulnerable. Children are totally dependent on the adults in their life (i.e. parents, teachers, uncles, and aunts) to properly satisfy their needs. If the adults in a child's life are unhealthy, toxic, sick, the child experiences a Toxic Childhood where needs go unmet. Toxic childhood's can lead to disastrous consequences in adolescence and early childhood.
Guidance and Direction: In addition to a family and society geared towards satisfaction of needs, children also need positive support, encouragement, guidance and direction in order that they may learn to properly satisfy their needs as adults. By the time children are legal drinking age they should know how addictive certain substances are (i.e. alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, crack, etc.), they should understand their own needs, and they should have the basic skills so that they can satisfy these needs for themselves, either by seeking human contact, engaging in activity (to eat dinner, get love, have healthy sex, etc.). In other words parents (and society) need to specify the right way and the wrong way to do things, otherwise need satisfaction in adulthood becomes challenging for the individual. Obviously if guidance and direction is to be provided, parents and society must themselves know the right way and the wrong way to meet needs, and they must also be able to put human need satisfaction before all other things (including competition and profit).
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. “The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept.” Psychological Inquiry 11, no. 4 (2000): 324.
- ↑ Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci, “The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept,” Psychological Inquiry 11, no. 4 (2000): 319–38, https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_03;
- ↑ Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci, “The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept,” Psychological Inquiry 11, no. 4 (2000): 321, https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_03;