title: Why nature doesn't turn off neurosis.
abstract: This paper develops an integration of psychoanalytic and wisdom tradition concepts to answer the question as to why nature does not turn off neurosis, The proposed answer is that nature wants a person to exploit the neurosis for two gains, one being the increase in adaptive capacity resulting from releasing it and the second involving the difficulty in the release itself, the latter related to gains proffered by the world's wisdom traditions. These see a movement from the psyche's creation by passive, unconscious means of finite promise rooted in parental love to creation by active, consciously chosen means of unlimited promise involving a direct relationship with nature and the Cosmos.
authors.affiliation: The Nathan Kline Institute, Scientific Support, Westwood, NJ 07675, USA. afjb@ix.netcom.com
authors.forename: Anthony F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Badalamenti
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008149:Love; D009042:Motivation; D019368:Nature; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D029181:Spirituality; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology