An in depth examination of the parameters and processes underlying our behavioral, emotional, mental, social, motivational and spiritual problematic patterns. It is a presented as being the resultant of the individual's soul and cosmic issues in conjunction with their bodily characteristics, environmental influences, and experiential history. They are seen as emerging from destiny design and early adaptational requirements, resulting in unconscious spiritual absolution pursuits that interact with ecological and self-fulfilling prophesy effects arising from their devial perceptions, interpretations and interventions. The dilemma of the isolated nuclear family is implicated intensely. It ends with a listing of the 108 dimensions underlying the problematic patterns.
Introduction ~
This "dictionary" describes disorders that affect the behavioral, social interface, emotional, mental, and spiritual systems. Its entry points for seeking understanding of what is happening for the individual are disturbances, disruptions, disorganizations, disorientations or discombobulations in and/or from the individual's functioning in four general areas.
These are:
l) their behavioral/habitual/social outputs,
2) their emotional/attitudinal/evaluational orientations,
3) their cognitive/interpretive/spiritual manifestations, and
4) their wanting/willing/motivational intentions.
Taken together, these difficulties in functioning represent the individual's Problematic Patterns.
The sources for the entries in this dictionary are quite varied and rather exhaustive. Included are 1) the fundamental factorial dimensions underlying all of the trait names in the English Dictionary, 2) all the entries in the official psychiatric diagnostic system (the DSM-IV -- including the other culture disorders in the back of the DSM-IV) and 3) 0 to 3, the Greenspan Committee work on early childhood psychopathology.
Also included are 4) the primary substance, process and experience addictions, 5) the patterns found in the author's experience and research to underlie the Jesness Behavior Checklist profiles, 6) the 8 object relations developmental arrest personality patterns discovered by the author, 7) the 32 family scripts found in the author's experience, and 8) the 55 types of children and the 35 staff characters encountered in child therapy programs as outlined by the author from his research.
In addition, there are 9) the patterns found in the criminal population by the author, 10) the paranoid patriarchy male and female failure patterns as delineated by the author, 11) Eric Berne's games, 12) Claude Steiner's life-scripts, 13) the enneagram point problematic manifestations, 14) the negative poles of the chakras, (the division of labor energy intake centers), 15) the seven deadly sins, and 16) the five major mayas (the evils of being lost in the illusions of the world).
Finally, there are the author's 30 years of clinical experience and 25 overlapping years of sacred-secular integration training and practice, and the materials contained in the references. All together, these make a rather remarkably encompassing pool of Problematic Patterns with which to understand people, situations and needs.
