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In the last three months or so, I have been studying symbiosis; e.g. parent-child symbiosis. Why? When I reviewed the quantitative research on families of schizophrenics, it was striking how symbiosis as a factor in development of schizophrenia has been neglected by all the quantitative researchers. It seemed odd when you consider.

The following is a first draft of a review that I will develop for publication. The last 60 years of research with families of schizophrenics have produced some reliable observations that are worth thinking about and worth considering their implications for how we think about the development of severe psychopathology and then its course after it.

I have begun a project to try to say who my professional self is. The first part of that will be to try to describe the precursors of my current professional self, as best as I can. It is already clear that the precursor section will include at least three parts: 1. The chronology.

Jim Edd Jones June 5, 2015 Nuclear Family Emotional Process, Beliefs, and Learned Nonuse In nuclear family emotional process, beliefs about self and each other in the family are consistent with the pattern of the emotional process and become self-fulfilling. The phenomenon of learned nonuse is one important part of that self-fulfilling process which intensifies and solidifies.

Jim Edd Jones February 1, 2015 Differentiation and Learning Differentiation and learning is a big topic. One small corner of it is how the level of differentiation of individual and system play out in the learning of complex skills to an expert level. We’ll consider only individuals who have attained expert level in some complex skill,.

This is part of my attempt to absorb relevant facts from recent research about learning and central nervous system plasticity. October 5, 2014 Brain Plasticity Jim Edd Jones The brain is dynamic, changeable, and continually fluctuating. Until the last 35-40 years, the central nervous system was thought to be fixed and unchangeable once it had completed its developmental.

Every behavior has a systems context; there are no isolated behaviors. Jim Edd Jones The word ‘behavior’ has been a staple of psychology since early in the 20th century. How we think with that word has been imprinted by Pavlov’s classic experiments and then later by the John Watson and B.F. Skinner branches of behaviorism. .