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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9511121.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %RECOGNIZE NAME DESCRIBE TALK DYSFUNCTION BEHAVIOR 951112 It is important to learn how to name, describe and talk about dysfunctional patterns of behavior---else we are likely to slip into and engage in dysfunctional patterns of behavior. The difference between dysfunctional patterns of behavior and functional patterns of behavior is often obscured by people engaged in dysfunctional patterns of behavior---for they seek to try to appear functional when they are not. Dysfunctional people are preoccupied with appearing to conform to conventional expectations of good behavior. Dysfunctional people do not learn much from their mistakes---because they are more preoccupied with finding people to blame for all that goes wrong around them; than they are with honestly understanding why things go wrong around them. Dysfunctional patterns of behavior generate confusion about: ideals, values, causes, consequences, truth, deception, realities, appearances, good and evil. Dysfunctional people do not work for clarity---because clarity would make clear in what ways they are responsible for much that goes wrong around them. Dysfunctional patterns of behavior grow out of personal and communal alienation---which is occasioned by trying to draw sharp boundaries between good people and evil people. People who are preoccupied with drawing such sharp boundaries generate alienation which leads to dysfunctional patterns of behavior. Dysfunctional people are more preoccupied with sharp definitions of good people and evil people---than with describing the tragic ideals, values, attitudes, assumptions, beliefs and convictions which lead people to generate alienation; which leads to dysfunctional patterns of behavior. In confusing situations it is often difficult to tell the difference between functional people and dysfunctional people---for the difference is not the same as the differences between the rich and the poor, the respected and the rejected, the powerful and the powerless, the pious and the impious, the professionals and the laborers, the educated and the ignorant, the intellectuals and the simple folk. All kinds of dysfunctional people work to confuse the differences between them and functional people. It is the functional people who can tell the difference by recognizing, naming and talking about their own personal experiences openly and honestly. Authoritative people are often engaged in dysfunctional patterns of behavior intended to take advantage of the confusion which they generate. Such attempts to gain control are based upon confused understandings of the origins of the confusion which they intend to take advantage of. People who are preoccupied with issues of control are usually more concerned with mere appearances of being in control---than they are concerned with clarifying the origins and consequences of real alienation, confusion, and dysfunctional patterns of behavior. When we are immersed in chaotic situations much reflexive work is required to clarify for our selves and for others what the origins of confusions are. Such work cannot be based upon objective paradigms which presume that the person doing the work is separated from the objects of attention which are being worked on. When we are immersed in chaotic situations we need to work within our situation of immersion---and so we cannot be separated from that upon which we need to work---and so we cannot be objective about it our situations of chaotic immersion. In such situations of chaotic immersion in confusion about our reflexive contexts---we cannot improve our context by pretending that we are being objective, scientific, and technically competent to transcend our dilemmas---through technocratic manipulations of objects from which we have separated ourselves. Scientists and scholars who are preoccupied with objectivity, measurements, computations and engineering considerations---cannot deal with the consequences of alienation---for alienation is not an objective reality from which those affected by alienation can detach. A non-objective paradigm must play a central role in any honest efforts to deal with the origins and consequences of alienation, confusion, and dysfunctional patterns of behavior. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================