New psychology research links childhood betrayal trauma to secondary psychopathy in adulthood

This should be common knowledge by NOW! That everything we become and what happens to us is connected to childhood! People are constantly unconsciously and compulsively reenacting their childhood dramas as adults... 

How many more fxcking studies do we need?! People in power positions over others are constantly showing us how they were treated in childhood by the way they treat those working under them...

 "...The body does not understand moral precepts. It fights against the denial of genuine emotions and for the admission of the truth to our conscious minds. This is something the child cannot afford to do, it has to deceive itself and turn a blind eye to the parents’ crimes in order to survive. Adults no longer need to do this, but if they do, the price they pay is high. Either they ruin their own health or they make others pay the price – their children, their patients, the people who work for them, etc." -- Alice Miller

This is why the workplace becomes so toxic because is full of malignant narcissists, sociopaths, bad players, psychopaths, assholes, or whatever you like to call these NOW evil people.  

And this is why since I published my book sharing my life experiences and psychological discoveries I have become constantly a target of these NOW evil people or psychopaths. I have compassion for the children they once were but I have no compassion for the monstrous adults they have become. As adults, we have the choice to look for real answers and healing and make a conscious choice to not become like our childhood abusers. I made a promise to myself when I was a little girl that I would never become like my childhood abusers. Breaking free from the chains of compulsion repetition is my proudest achievement in life!

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/08/i-will-no-longer-be-on-social-media.html

Hurting and destroying others' lives is their painkilling drug. It's an addiction that keeps their own childhood repression intact. 

“…Dictators and the Dynamics of Cruelty Every dictator torments his people in the same way he was tormented as a child. The humiliations inflicted on these dictators in adult life had nothing like the same influence on their actions as the emotional experiences they went through in their early years. Those years are "formative" in the truest sense: in this period the brain records or "encodes" emotions without (usually) being able to recall them at will. As almost every dictator denies his sufferings (his former total helplessness in the face of brutality) there is no way that he can truly come to terms with them. Instead, he will have a limitless craving for scapegoats on whom he can avenge himself for the fears and anxieties of childhood without having to re-experience those fears.” Alice Miller

"New psychology research links childhood betrayal trauma to secondary psychopathy in adulthood. A new study has found that people who reported suffering betrayal trauma in childhood were more likely to exhibit psychopathic and callous traits in adulthood. Dissociative experiences were found to mediate this association.

A new study has found that people who reported suffering betrayal trauma in childhood were more likely to exhibit psychopathic and callous traits in adulthood. Dissociative experiences were found to mediate this association. The study was published in the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.

Psychopathy consists of a set of behavioral traits that are often observed together in individuals. These are serious, chronic antisocial behavior, lack of empathy, bold, and disinhibited behavior that is paired with charming, but exploitative behavior. Scientific studies of psychopathy have, so far, mostly focused on antisocial behavior that is characteristic of psychopathy. It was typically studied in samples of convicts and individuals registered or processed by the criminal justice system. However, psychopathic personality traits exist to a different degree throughout the population. Recently, research focus has shifted to successful individuals displaying psychopathic traits, the so-called “successful psychopaths.” Researchers have proposed that individuals with psychopathic traits who are able to effectively adapt to social norms and can better control their antisocial impulses and overall behavior can avoid incarceration and be highly successful in their careers.

More recent contributions also made a distinction between primary psychopathy, thought to be primarily influenced by biological and genetic factors, and secondary psychopathy, thought to be a consequence of unresolved emotional conflicts and trauma. While the primary characteristic of primary psychopathy is callousness, secondary psychopathy is primarily characterized by impulsive, antisocial behavior.

Study authors Aleksandria Grabowa and Kathy Becker-Blease wanted to explore the childhood factors that led to secondary psychopathy in adulthood. They proposed that betrayal trauma in childhood might lead to emotional numbing and dissociation, which, in time, lead to the development of secondary psychopathic traits."

https://www.psypost.org/2023/04/new-psychology-research-links-childhood-betrayal-trauma-to-secondary-psychopathy-in-adulthood-77575#:~:

"I designate as pessimistic the thought that we are far more dependent than our pride would like to admit on individual human beings (and not only on institutions!), for a single person can gain control over the masses if he learns to use to his own advantage the system under which they were raised. People who have been "pedagogically" manipulated as children are not aware as adults of all that can be done to them. Like the individual authoritarian father, leader figures, in whom the masses see their own father, actually embody the avenging child who needs the masses for his own purposes (of revenge). And this second form of dependence--the dependence of the "great leader" on his childhood, on the unpredictable nature of the unintegrated, enormous potential for hatred within him--is decidedly a very great danger." Taken from the book "For Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in child-rearing and the Roots of Violence" by Alice Miller (page 243)

A great danger indeed

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Root+Cause+of+War

"Only unflinching realization of one’s own past reality, of what really happened can break through the chain of abuse. If I know and can feel what my parents did to me when I was totally defenseless, I no longer need victims to befog my awareness. I no longer need to reenact what happened to me with the help of innocent people because now I KNOW what happened. And if I want to live my life consciously, without exploiting others, then I must actively accept that knowledge.

...Am I saying that forgiveness for crimes done to a child is not only ineffective but actively harmful? Yes, that is precisely what I am saying. The body does not understand moral precepts. It fights against the denial of genuine emotions and for the admission of the truth to our conscious minds. This is something the child cannot afford to do, it has to deceive itself and turn a blind eye to the parents’ crimes in order to survive. Adults no longer need to do this, but if they do, the price they pay is high. Either they ruin their own health or they make others pay the price – their children, their patients, the people who work for them, etc." -- Alice Miller

The above excerpt from the article Deception Kills Love by Alice Miller

"It is not true that evil, destructiveness,

and perversion inevitably form part of

human existence, no matter how often this

is maintained. But it is true that we are

daily producing more evil and, with it, an

ocean of suffering for millions that is

absolutely avoidable. When one day the

ignorance arising from childhood

repression is eliminated and humanity

has awakened, an end can be put to the

production of evil.”

— Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge, p. 143

"Children who are told the truth and are not brought up to tolerate lies and cruelty can develop as freely as a plant whose roots have not been attacked by pests (in our case, lies)" Alice Miller 

Lies are the fuel that creates wars. 

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2017/07/terrorism-is-war-of-poor-and-war-is.html?m=1

The great malady of our society, implicated in all our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is the idealization of our parents and childhood and the denial of childhood suffering. When we idealize our parents and childhood and deny childhood suffering, it does not go away. It appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, greed, deceit, and loss of meaning. Our temptation is to isolate these symptoms or try to eradicate them one by one, but the root problem is the idealization of our parents and childhood and the denial of childhood suffering.