The Sleeper... 🤔
By Dr Richard Prytula
Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst
November 2022
Understanding the "Sleeper"
"Using the term “sleeper”, suggests that the user has no concept of the state of mind of the unaware person.
A person is unaware, because the new information is too anxiety-provoking to reach their awareness. That is: their higher conscious and intellectual levels of functioning.
They have not developed the mental capacity to tolerate the anxiety. It does not emerge into consciousness, for them to be able to assess the new information. It is treated as dangerous and life-threatening. They defend against it with negation; blocking it. This occurs beneath consciousness and all that presents consciously from them is: “No” or denial of the new information: avoidance, mocking and ridicule of it and any who speak it." ... More👇
https://www.simonparkes.or...
By Dr Richard Prytula
Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst
November 2022
Understanding the "Sleeper"
"Using the term “sleeper”, suggests that the user has no concept of the state of mind of the unaware person.
A person is unaware, because the new information is too anxiety-provoking to reach their awareness. That is: their higher conscious and intellectual levels of functioning.
They have not developed the mental capacity to tolerate the anxiety. It does not emerge into consciousness, for them to be able to assess the new information. It is treated as dangerous and life-threatening. They defend against it with negation; blocking it. This occurs beneath consciousness and all that presents consciously from them is: “No” or denial of the new information: avoidance, mocking and ridicule of it and any who speak it." ... More👇
https://www.simonparkes.or...
The Sleeper...
Understanding the “Sleeper” Using the term “sleeper”, suggests that the user has no concept of the state of mind of the unaware person. A person is unaware, because the new information is too anxiety-provoking to reach their awareness. That is: their higher conscious and intellectual levels of funct..
https://www.simonparkes.org/post/the-sleeper
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