TA for Learners - 00.03 Passivity, Passive Behaviours, Discounting and Symbiosis
TA for Learners 00.03 Passivity, Passive Behaviours, Discounting and Symbiosis (This Blog is a Chapter in 'My Little TA Book') List of Contents Passivity Passivity means inaction. Passivity is displayed when one does nothing or does something inappropriately, or ineffectively. Jacqui and Aaron Schiff concluded that passivity results from unresolved dependency (symbiosis). Discounting is the mechanism and grandiosity (distortion of reality) provides the justification. Passivity in feeling, thinking, or doing disrupts the balance of social functioning and results in internal distress or behaviour al disorders. Passive Behaviours Passive behaviours are manifestations of internal distress. They are in the nature of dysfunctional behaviours. They are the result of passivity with discounting being the mechanism. Four types of passive behaviours and two types of thinking disorders result. They prove to be ineffective , because some aspect of self, or of...