PAID CLASS Firestone’s Defense Mechanisms OFFICIAL CLASS
75 min class–if you are familiar with the relational neuroscience framework that Crockett teaches, then you’ll know we all exist on a spectrum from low integration to high integration. (No prior knowledge is needed to watch this class, this is explained in the class.) This class is a fascinating theory from a famous psychiatrist who has lived 40+ years in a community observing “What mechanisms inside us prevent us from being able to integrate?” In a nutshell, the theory explains what happens when a person’s brain doesn’t achieve excellent executive function, what the brain does when it turns in on itself and substitutes real, in-person connection and meaning (which is the heart of a person who achieves higher states of integration,) and instead chooses an illusion of connection (called the “fantasy bond”). This mechanism can be a person’s favorite sports team or even workaholism, something that seemingly is healthy but becomes unhealthy because it interferes with the person being able to maintain an aliveness and passion for life.
Topics covered include how we all exist on a spectrum from highly defended to a healthy functioning social engagement system, what goes on in the brain for both types on this spectrum, typical behaviors like withholding, stonewalling, and duplicity from someone who is highly defended, and much more.
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