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'''Toxic Socialization''' (Michael S., 2016). 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 societally imposed conditioning process, orchestrated by agents of the [[Accumulating Class]], that takes a new born infant and moulds them, over the course of two or three decades, into compliant, productivity-focused individuals suitable for insertion into the socioeconomic machinery of society (i.e., the [[Regime of Accumulation]]). This process prioritizes conformity, obedience, and labour over creativity, empathy, and independent thought. The TS process is illustrated metaphorically by the [[Allegory of the Bucket]]. TS undermines [[Human Potential]]  
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* Displacement of parents as primary role models and authority figures in the child's life
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* 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. For a comprehensive summary of negative outcomes associated with toxic socialization, see my article [https://www.sociology.org/toxic-socialization/ Toxic Socialization]
==Concept Map==


==Displacement of Parents==
===Key Terms===


==Destruction and/or Degradation of Primary Attachments==
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==See Also==
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==Further Reading==
===Elements of Toxic Socialization===


Neufeld, Gorden & Mate, Gabor (2013). ''Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers''. Vintage Canada.
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Sosteric, Mike (2012). The Emotional Abuse of Our Children. Teachers, Schools, and the Sanctioned Violence of our Modern Institutions. ''Socjourn''' [http://www.sociology.org/the-emotional-abuse-of-our-children-teachers-schools-and-the-sanctioned-violence-of-our-modern-institutions/]
===Mechanisms of Reproduction===


Sosteric, Mike (2016). Toxic Socialization. ''Socjourn'' https://www.sociology.org/toxic-socialization/
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==References==
===Syncretic Terms===


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.
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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
===Related LP Terms===


Aronson, D. (2009). Cortisol--Its Role in Stress, Inflammation, an Indications for Diet Therapy. ''Today's Dietitian, 11''(11), 38.
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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
===Related Pathfinder Terms===


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
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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
===Non-LP Related Terms===


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
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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
==Overview==


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.  
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|+ ''Summary of Toxic Socialization Elements and Healing Focus''
! Toxic Socialization Element
! Description
! Core Healing Focus
|-
| Violence
| Any action (physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual) that diminishes human potential.
| Rebuild safety, honor emotions, restore dignity.
|-
| Neglect
| Failure to meet a child's Seven Essential Needs.
| Recognize needs, nourish self, allow flourishing.
|-
| Chaos
| Chronic instability, unpredictability, noise, crowding.
| Create peace, establish safety and growth mode.
|-
| Parentification
| Child forced into adult caregiving roles.
| Set boundaries, release over-responsibility, nurture inner child.
|-
| Weaponization
| Family members manipulated against each other (e.g., triangulation).
| Establish trust, recognize manipulation, build safe bonds.
|-
| Destruction of Attachments
| Broken, disordered, or absent emotional bonds.
| Heal attachment wounds, rebuild secure connections.
|-
| Indoctrination
| Insertion of toxic beliefs (ideology) that harm and diminish.
| Clear wrong thought, reclaim authentic perception and sovereignty.
|-
| Pathologization
| Gaglightning. You are not following the rules so there is something wrong with you
| Recover authenticity, ground self in the big Self, the authentic self, the [[Spiritual Ego]]
|}


Cho, K. (2001). Chronic 'jet lag' produces temporal lobe atrophy and spatial cognitive deficits. ''Nature Neuroscience, 4''(6), 567-568.
==Notes==


Conradt, E., Abar, B., Lester, B. M., LaGasse, L. L., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., . . . Hammond, J. A. (2014). Cortisol Reactivity to Social Stress as a Mediator of Early Adversity on Risk and Adaptive Outcomes. ''Child Dev, 85''(6), 2279-2298. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12316
TS is a destructive socialization process intentionally designed by [[System Agents]] to facilitate reproduction of the [[Regime of Accumulation]] (see [[Mechanisms of Reproduction]]).  


Cuijpers, P., Smit, F., Unger, F., Stikkelbroek, Y., ten Have, M., & de Graaf, R. (2011). The disease burden of childhood adversities in adults: A population-based study. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 35''(11), 937-945. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.06.005
Toxic socialization is a process 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]], 6) distortion/destruction of healthy family [[Destruction of Attachments|Attachment]]. and 7) [[Weaponization]] of familial, social, and work relationships.<ref>Weaponization added Jan 7, 2025</ref>For a complete explication, see the article [https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization Toxic Socialization]<ref>For more detail, see Sosteric, Mike “Toxic Socialization,” 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.</ref>. Toxic Socialization is illustrated allegorically in the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-bDJSR6Z_c Allegory of the Bucket.]


Danielson, C. K., Amstadter, A., Dangelmaier, R. E., Resnick, H. S., Saunders, B. E., & Kilpatrick, D. G. (2009). Does Typography of Substance Abuse and Dependence Differ as a Function of Exposure to Child Maltreatment? ''J Child Adolesc Subst Abuse, 18''(4), 323.  
Toxic socialization undermines human potential and undermines and even disables 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]].  


Davies, P. T., Sturge-Apple, M. L., Bascoe, S. M., & Cummings, E. M. (2014). The Legacy of Early Insecurity Histories in Shaping Adolescent Adaptation to Interparental Conflict. ''Child Development, 85''(1), 338-354. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12119
Toxic socialization is a colonial/imperial/European socialization process implemented in order to undermine 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.  


de Oliveira, P. A., Scarpari, G. K., dos Santos, B., & Scivoletto, S. (2012). Intellectual deficits in Brazilian victimized children and adolescents: A psychosocial problem? ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(7–8), 608-610. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.05.002
As Fanon pointed out in the ''Wretched of the Earth'', toxic socialization (my words, not his), result in a "totalitarian systemic negation of the colonized, and is enforced by systemic [and we would add neglect] in all areas of life." <ref>CHECK THIS QUOTE  Gibson, N.C., and R. Beneduce. Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. p. 7.</ref>


de Paula, H. M., & Hoshino, K. (2002). Correlation between the fighting rates of REM sleep-deprived rats and susceptibility to the 'wild running' of audiogenic seizures. ''Brain Res, 926''(1-2), 80-85.  
[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 in pre WWII Germany. 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.


De Sanctis, V. A., Nomura, Y., Newcorn, J. H., & Halperin, J. M. (2012). Childhood maltreatment and conduct disorder: Independent predictors of criminal outcomes in ADHD youth. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(11–12), 782-789. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.08.003
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]


DiLillo, D., Lewis, T., & Loreto-Colgan, A. D. (2007). Child Maltreatment History and Subsequent Romantic Relationships. ''Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 15''(1), 19-36. doi: 10.1300/J146v15n01_02
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.


Dozier, M., Manni, M., Gordon, M. K., Peloso, E., Gunnar, M. R., Stovall-McClough, K. C., . . . Levine, S. (2006). Foster children's diurnal production of cortisol: an exploratory study. ''Child Maltreat, 11''(2), 189-197. doi: 10.1177/1077559505285779
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 develops 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>
E. Mark Cummings, M. C. G.-M., Dukewich, T. L., Cummings, E. M., Marcie C. Goeke-Morey,, & Dukewich., T. L. (2001). ''The Study of Relations between Marital Conflict and


Child Adjustment: Challenges and New Directions for Methodology''
In 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>
''Interparental Conflict and Child Development'': Cambridge University Press.


Eslick, G. D., Koloski, N. A., & Talley, N. J. (2011). Sexual, physical, verbal/emotional abuse and unexplained chest pain. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 35''(8), 601-605. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.04.007
'''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.  


Fries, A. B. W., Ziegler, T. E., Kurian, J. R., Jacoris, S., & Pollak, S. D. (2005). Early experience in humans is associated with changes in neuropeptides critical for regulating social behavior. ''Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102''(47), 17237-17240.  
'''Toxic socialization stunts and damages the [[Physical Unit]].''' It damages the [[Bodily Ego]] and causes [[PSST]], Psychosocialspiritual trauma, physical illness, 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>, [[Disjuncture]], lower IQ, lower [[CQ]], [[Addictions]], [[Robotization]], 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>premature aging, and a host of other emotional, cognitive, and physiological issues.<ref>For more detail, see Sosteric, Mike “Toxic Socialization,” 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.<nowiki></ref></nowiki></ref>


Fuller-Thomson, E., Bejan, R., Hunter, J. T., Grundland, T., & Brennenstuhl, S. (2012). The link between childhood sexual abuse and myocardial infarction in a population-based study. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(9), 656-665. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.06.001
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>


Fuller-Thomson, E., Brennenstuhl, S., & Frank, J. (2010). The association between childhood physical abuse and heart disease in adulthood: Findings from a representative community sample. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 34''(9), 689-698. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.02.005
'''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")


Glover, D., Gough, G., Johnson, M., & Cartwright, N. (2000). Bullying in 25 secondary schools: incidence, impact and intervention. ''Educational Research, 42''(2), 141-156. doi: 10.1080/001318800363782
"Spare the rod and spoil the child" is an admonishment to expose children to violence, an admonishment to Toxic Socialization.


Goleman, D. (1988). The Experience of Touch: Research Points to a Critical Role. ''The New York Times''.
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).  


Hager, A. D., & Runtz, M. G. (2012). Physical and psychological maltreatment in childhood and later health problems in women: An exploratory investigation of the roles of perceived stress and coping strategies. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(5), 393-403. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.02.002
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>


Heim, C., & Binder, E. B. (2012). Current research trends in early life stress and depression: Review of human studies on sensitive periods, gene–environment interactions, and epigenetics. ''Experimental Neurology, 233''(1), 102-111. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.10.032
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>


Heim, C., & Nemeroff, C. B. (1999). The role of childhood trauma in the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders: Preclinical and clinical studies. ''Biologial Psychiatry, 46''(11), 1509-1522.  
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>


Hosang, G. M., Johnson, S. L., Kiecolt-Glaser, J., Di Gregorio, M. P., Lambert, D. R., Bechtel, M. A., . . . Glaser, R. (2013). Gender specific association of child abuse and adult cardiovascular disease in a sample of patients with Basal Cell Carcinoma. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 37''(6), 374-379. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.09.018
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>


Johnson, D. E., & Gunnar, M. R. (2011). IV. GROWTH FAILURE IN INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILDREN. ''Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 76''(4), 92-126. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5834.2011.00629.x
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>


Kendler, K. S., Kuhn, J. W., & Prescott, C. A. (2004). Childhood sexual abuse, stressful life events and risk for major depression in women. ''Psychological Medicine, 34''(8), 1475-1482.  
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>


Kohn, A. (1986 [1992]). ''No Contest: The Case Against Competition''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
===Artistic Renderings===


Liu, R. T., Jager-Hyman, S., Wagner, C. A., Alloy, L. B., & Gibb, B. E. (2012). Number of childhood abuse perpetrators and the occurrence of depressive episodes in adulthood. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(4), 323-332. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.11.007
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.


Lupien, S. J., McEwen, B. S., Gunnar, M. R., & Heim, C. (2009). Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition. ''Nat Rev Neurosci, 10''(6), 434-445.  
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).


McEwen, B. S. (2003). Mood disorders and allostatic load. ''Biological Psychiatry, 54''(3), 200-207. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3223(03)00177-X
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>


McEwen, B. S. (2006). Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators: central role of the brain. ''Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 8''(4), 367-381.
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


Milaniak, I., & Widom, C. S. (2015). Does child abuse and neglect increase risk for perpetration of violence inside and outside the home? ''Psychology of Violence, 5''(3), 246-255. doi: 10.1037/a0037956
Jason Mraz sings about the impact of toxic socialization.  


Miller, G. E., Chen, E., & Parker, K. J. (2011). Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving toward a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms. ''Psychological Bulletin, 137''(6), 959-997.  
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Miller, G. E., Chen, E., & Parker, K. J. (2011). Psychological stress in childhood and susceptibility to the chronic diseases of aging: Moving toward a model of behavioral and biological mechanisms. ''Psychological Bulletin, 37''(6), 959-997.  
This animation is a brilliant symbolic rendering of the impact of Toxic Socialization and the individual and global healing that must occur.


Moeller, T. P., Bachmann, G. A., & Moeller, J. R. (1993). The combined effects of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse during childhood: Long-term health consequences for women. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 17''(5), 623-640. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0145-2134(93)90084-I
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Moss, H. B., Vanyukov, M., Yao, J. K., & Kirillova, G. P. (1999). Salivary cortisol responses in prepubertal boys: the effects of parental substance abuse and association with drug use behavior during adolescence. ''Biological Psychiatry, 45''(10), 1293-1299. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00216-9


Oberleitner, L. M. S., Smith, P. H., Weinberger, A. H., Mazure, C. M., & McKee, S. A. (2015). Impact of Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment on Transitions to Alcohol Dependence in Women and Men. ''Child Maltreat, 20''(4), 301-308. doi: 10.1177/1077559515591270
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>


Perry, B. D., & Szalavitz, M. (2010). ''Born for love: Why Empathy is Essential--and Endangered'': William Morrow.
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.  


Putnam-Hornstein, E., Simon, J. D., Eastman, A. L., & Magruder, J. (2015). Risk of Re-Reporting Among Infants Who Remain at Home Following Alleged Maltreatment. ''Child Maltreat, 20''(2), 92-103. doi: 10.1177/1077559514558586
“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.


Rosenberg, J., Maximov, I. I., Reske, M., Grinberg, F., & Shah, N. J. (2014). “Early to bed, early to rise”: Diffusion tensor imaging identifies chronotype-specificity. ''NeuroImage, 84'', 428-434. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.086
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.


Rudolph, K. D., Lansford, J. E., Agoston, A. M., Sugimura, N., Schwartz, D., Dodge, K. A., . . . Bates, J. E. (2014). Peer Victimization and Social Alienation: Predicting Deviant Peer Affiliation in Middle School. ''Child Development, 85''(1), 124-139. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12112
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Sharp, M. (2013). ''The Rocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy: Accumulation and Debt.'' St Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press.
God created [humanity] incorruptible, and to the image of its own likeness made them. But by the envy of the [[devil]], [[death]] came into the world. '''Wisdom, II. 23, 24'''--or as we might say on the LP, toxic socialization leads to the [[3Ds of Toxic Existence]]


Shin, S. H., Lee, S., Jeon, S.-M., & Wills, T. A. (2015). Childhood emotional abuse, negative emotion-driven impulsivity, and alcohol use in young adulthood. ''Child Abuse &
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Sosteric, M. (2012). The emotional abuse of our children: Teachers, schools, and the sanctioned violence of our modern institutions. ''The Socjournal, March''.
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* [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/human-rights-watch-usa-child-abuse-labor-report.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us Human Rights Watch, endemic child abuse in American society]


Sousa, N., Lukoyanov, N. V., Madeira, M. D., Almeida, O. F. X., & Paula-Barbosa, M. M. (2000). Reorganization of the morphology of hippocampal neurites and synapses after stress-induced damage correlates with behavioral improvement. ''Neuroscience, 97''(2), 253-266. doi: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00050-6
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Strøm, I. F., Thoresen, S., Wentzel-Larsen, T., & Dyb, G. (2013). Violence, bullying and academic achievement: A study of 15-year-old adolescents and their school environment. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 37''(4), 243-251. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.10.010
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Swannell, S., Martin, G., Page, A., Hasking, P., Hazell, P., Taylor, A., & Protani, M. (2012). Child maltreatment, subsequent non-suicidal self-injury and the mediating roles of dissociation, alexithymia and self-blame. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 36''(7–8), 572-584. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.05.005
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Szalavitz, M. (2010). How Orphanages Kill Babies-- and Why No Child Under 5 Should Be in One. ''Huffington Post''.
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Trickett, P. K., Negriff, S., Ji, J., & Peckins, M. (2011). Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Development. ''Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21''(1), 3-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00711.x
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Wang, M.-T., & Kenny, S. (2014). Longitudinal Links Between Fathers’ and Mothers’ Harsh Verbal Discipline and Adolescents’ Conduct Problems and Depressive Symptoms. ''Child Dev, 85''(3), 908-923. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12143
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Weber-Hamann, B., Hentschel, F., Kniest, A., Deuschle, M., Colla, M., Lederbogen, F., & Heuser, I. (2002). Hypercortisolemic depression is associated with increased intra-abdominal fat. ''Psychosomatic Medicine, 64''(2), 274-277.
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Wingenfeld, K., Schaffrath, C., Rullkoetter, N., Mensebach, C., Schlosser, N., Beblo, T., . . . Meyer, B. (2011). Associations of childhood trauma, trauma in adulthood and previous-year stress with psychopathology in patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder. ''Child Abuse & Neglect, 35''(8), 647-654. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.04.003
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Latest revision as of 21:29, 24 November 2025

Toxic Socialization

Toxic Socialization is a societally imposed conditioning process, orchestrated by agents of the Accumulating Class, that takes a new born infant and moulds them, over the course of two or three decades, into compliant, productivity-focused individuals suitable for insertion into the socioeconomic machinery of society (i.e., the Regime of Accumulation). This process prioritizes conformity, obedience, and labour over creativity, empathy, and independent thought. The TS process is illustrated metaphorically by the Allegory of the Bucket. TS undermines Human Potential

Concept Map

Key Terms

Mode of Reproduction >

Human Development >> Socialization >

LP HEALING Framework >

Elements of Toxic Socialization

Toxic Socialization >

Mechanisms of Reproduction

Mechanisms of Reproduction > State Apparatus, The State, Toxic Socialization

Syncretic Terms

Toxic Socialization > Poisonous Pedagogy

Related LP Terms

Toxic Socialization > Blocking Emotions, Clearing Emotions, Connection Blockage, Connection-Centered Parenting, Defence Mechanisms, Defense Mode, Disjuncture, Empowerment, Healing Burden, Healing Environment, Healing Space, Human Flourishing, Intragenerational Toxicity, Mass Consciousness, Misalignment, Narrative Visualization, No-Violence Rule, Prism Metaphor, Regime of Accumulation, Repair Mode, Self Assessment, Seven Essential Needs, Seven Toxic Needs, Stages of Human Development, System Agent, The Great Gork, Toxic Burden, Toxicity Score

Related Pathfinder Terms

Toxic Socialization > Controlling Social Structure

Non-LP Related Terms

Toxic Socialization > Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, Authority, Conscientização, Culture of Silence, Dialogic Method, European Grand Narrative, Generative Themes, Love, Empathy, and Hope, Normalcy, Praxis, Problem-Posing Education, Systemic Indoctrination

Overview

Summary of Toxic Socialization Elements and Healing Focus
Toxic Socialization Element Description Core Healing Focus
Violence Any action (physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual) that diminishes human potential. Rebuild safety, honor emotions, restore dignity.
Neglect Failure to meet a child's Seven Essential Needs. Recognize needs, nourish self, allow flourishing.
Chaos Chronic instability, unpredictability, noise, crowding. Create peace, establish safety and growth mode.
Parentification Child forced into adult caregiving roles. Set boundaries, release over-responsibility, nurture inner child.
Weaponization Family members manipulated against each other (e.g., triangulation). Establish trust, recognize manipulation, build safe bonds.
Destruction of Attachments Broken, disordered, or absent emotional bonds. Heal attachment wounds, rebuild secure connections.
Indoctrination Insertion of toxic beliefs (ideology) that harm and diminish. Clear wrong thought, reclaim authentic perception and sovereignty.
Pathologization Gaglightning. You are not following the rules so there is something wrong with you Recover authenticity, ground self in the big Self, the authentic self, the Spiritual Ego

Notes

TS is a destructive socialization process intentionally designed by System Agents to facilitate reproduction of the Regime of Accumulation (see Mechanisms of Reproduction).

Toxic socialization is a process characterized by 1) neglect (of the Seven Essential Needs), 2) violence[1] 3) chaos (in the home environment), 4) parentification, 5) Indoctrination, 6) distortion/destruction of healthy family Attachment. and 7) Weaponization of familial, social, and work relationships.[2]For a complete explication, see the article Toxic Socialization[3]. Toxic Socialization is illustrated allegorically in the video Allegory of the Bucket.

Toxic socialization undermines human potential and undermines and even disables 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.

Toxic socialization is a colonial/imperial/European socialization process implemented in order to undermine 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 (my words, not his), result in a "totalitarian systemic negation of the colonized, and is enforced by systemic [and we would add neglect] in all areas of life." [4]

Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber is a German physician who actually advocated a horrific form of Toxic Socialization in pre WWII Germany. Mom Katya Degrieck[5] 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.[6] 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 develops 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."[7]

In 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."[8]

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 PSST, Psychosocialspiritual trauma, physical illness, Depression[9], Disjuncture, lower IQ, lower CQ, Addictions, Robotization, Alexithymia,[10]premature aging, and a host of other emotional, cognitive, and physiological issues.[11]</nowiki></ref>

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."[12]

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."[13] Maslow felt that a "culture gone bad" suppressed "love, kindness, and tenderness" and inhibited authentic human actualization[14] 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.[15]

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..." [16]

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.”[17]

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."[18]

Abraham Maslow distinguished between "coping," which is a response to toxic environments, and expression, which can occur only in positive environments.[19]

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."[20]

Artistic Renderings

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.[21]

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

Jason Mraz sings about the impact of toxic socialization.

This animation is a brilliant symbolic rendering of the impact of Toxic Socialization and the individual and global healing that must occur.


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."[22]

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.

Quotes

God created [humanity] incorruptible, and to the image of its own likeness made them. But by the envy of the devil, death came into the world. Wisdom, II. 23, 24--or as we might say on the LP, toxic socialization leads to the 3Ds of Toxic Existence

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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. ↑ Weaponization added Jan 7, 2025
  3. ↑ For more detail, see Sosteric, Mike “Toxic Socialization,” 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.
  4. ↑ CHECK THIS QUOTE Gibson, N.C., and R. Beneduce. Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. p. 7.
  5. ↑ Degrieck, Katya. “Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber Archives.” Motherhood (blog). Accessed May 7, 2019. http://motherhoodinpointoffact.com/tag/dr-daniel-gottlieb-moritz-schreber/.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ Nikki Main, “Everybody in the US Is Getting Depressed, CDC Says,” Gizmodo, 1686865520, https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-us-getting-depressed-cdc-214520272.ht
  10. ↑ 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
  11. ↑ For more detail, see Sosteric, Mike “Toxic Socialization,” 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.<nowiki>
  12. ↑ Laszlo, Ervin, Stanislav Grof, and Peter Russell. The Consciousness Revolution. Las Vegas: Elf Rock Productions, 1999. https://amzn.to/2TlOCmC.
  13. ↑ Daniels, M. “The Development of the Concept of Self-Actualization in the Writings of Abraham Maslow.” Current Psychological Perspectives 2 (1982): 71.
  14. ↑ Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 7.
  15. ↑ Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 1-2.
  16. ↑ Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 274.
  17. ↑ Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 276.
  18. ↑ Maslow, A.H. “Our Maligned Animal Nature.” Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 273. p. 276
  19. ↑ Maslow.“The Expressive Component of Behavior.” Psychological Review 56, no. 5 (September 1949): 261–72. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0053630.
  20. ↑ Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 3
  21. ↑ Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa (Perennial Classics) (p. 46). William Morrow. Kindle Edition. "
  22. ↑ 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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