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Early Trauma, Loneliness, the Indoctrinated Self, and the Need for Compassionate Empathy

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Early Trauma, Loneliness, the Indoctrinated Self, and the Need for Compassionate Empathy

By: Thomas G. Arizmendi

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This book explores how early trauma leads to loneliness and vulnerability to indoctrination—stress states at pandemic levels. It details how loneliness causes illness and indoctrination fuels a divided world, offering compassionate empathy as a unique path to repair and healing.

This book focuses on some of the detrimental effects of early trauma by detailing the particular outcomes of loneliness and heightened vulnerability to indoctrination. These…

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Author: Thomas G. Arizmendi ISBN: 1-5275-6512-2 Categories: Social Sciences, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychology, Emergency Medicine

This book focuses on some of the detrimental effects of early trauma by detailing the particular outcomes of loneliness and heightened vulnerability to indoctrination. These stress states are present at virtually pandemic levels. In terms of loneliness, the author goes well beyond the mental health consequences, outlining the numerous medical conditions it may lead to such as heart disease, immune system problems, and many others. Indoctrination processes are present in all walks of life – no one is immune. In extreme states of indoctrination, such as in fundamentalism, violence may be the result as we have seen with many wars and acts of terrorism. Overall, efforts to indoctrinate often play a huge role in forming our divided world.

Two notions in this book are unique – the focus on environmental sensitivity as a critical force in determining levels of vulnerability to stressful events and the emphasis on compassionate empathy to repair unmet needs stemming from trauma.

Thomas G. Arizmendi, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who practiced in Northern California, USA for over thirty years. He was also engaged in research related to psychotherapy process/outcome and depression. His practice, along with numerous publications and years of teaching centered primarily around treatment process especially with traumatized patients. His research and clinical work have culminated in a previous book concerning the neurobiological, genetic, and epigenetic underpinnings of individual differences in patients and their implications for treatment. Dr Arizmendi was formerly Assistant Clinical Professor and Research Psychologist at the University of California San Francisco and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Davis. He has been a co-investigator on several research grants funded by the University of California San Francisco and the National Institutes of Health.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-6512-2
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6512-8
Date of Publication: 2024-02-16

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-1772-7
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-1772-7
Date of Publication: 2024-11-20

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-6530-0
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6530-2
Date of Publication: 2024-11-20

Categories: Social Sciences, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychology, Emergency Medicine

Pages: 296

Subject Codes:

BIC: MMJ, JM, MMKB
THEMA: MKM, JM, MKPB

Pages: 296

"Arizmendi deploys a multidimensional lens in analyzing chronic loneliness, including bringing to light the strikingly numerous and serious physiological and psychological impairments associated with this enduringly painful state.
- He particularly homes in on the vulnerability loneliness creates for indoctrination by authoritarian/fundamentalist systems, another of the book’s major themes. Arizmendi brings the reader into the world of these totalistic and rigid systems—boldly concentrating on religion as an illustration—to help the reader appreciate ways in which they provide the indoctrinate with a comforting, all-encompassing structure for fulfilling her unmet needs—though at the expense of her true self."

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Thomas G. Arizmendi

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