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The Schopenhauer CureMature therapists never accept at face value their patients` accounts of mistreatment by others. Instead, therapists understand that to some extent individuals are cocreators of their social environment and that relationships are always reciprocal. But what about the relationship between young Arthur Schopenhauer and his parents? Surely its nature was primarily determined by Johanna and Heinrich, Arthur`s creators and shapers; they were, after all, the adults. And yet Arthur`s contribution cannot be overlooked: there was something primal, inbuilt, tenacious in Arthur`s temperament which, even as a child, elicited certain responses from Johanna and from others. Arthur habitually failed to inspire loving, generous, and joyful responses; instead almost everyone responded to him critically and defensively. Perhaps the template was set during Johanna`s tempestuous pregnancy. Or perhaps genetic endowment played the major role in Arthur`s development. The Schopenhauer lineage teemed with evidence of psychological disturbance ...» |
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