The continuum concept

Contents INTRODUCTION : Some Reports and Thoughts for the New Edition / ix ONE : How My Ideas Were So Radically Changed / 3 - Seeing first, understanding later, then going back to confirm my observations - Arriving at the Continuum Concept TWO : The Continuum Concept / 21 - What a human being is evolved to expect from life - His inherent tendencies - How the continuum works, in the individual and in the culture THREE : The Beginning of Life / 29 - Natural birth and traumatic birth - The expectations and tendencies of the infant - The in-arms phase and its consequences in the rest of one's life - The experience of infants and babies within the continuum, and without FOUR : Growing Up / 76 - What it means to be a social animal - The innate Talent for Self-Preservation, the growth of self-reliance, and the Importance of respecting the child's responsibility for himself - The assumption of innate sociality and its implications - How a child educates himself - The kind of assistance required of his Edlers FIVE : Deprivation of Essential Experiences / 109 - The blind search for the missed expenences in every corner of life - The hard drug-addict's secret - Myths of the fall of man - The two steps away from the state of grace: Man's evolved ability to make an intellectual choice & civilized man's derailment from the continuum - Relief from thinking, meditation, ritual, and other thought erasers. SIX : Society / 137 - Cultures that suit and cultures that conflict with the continuum - Conformity. reliability. the right not to be bored - Whatever became of joy? SEVEN : Putting Continuum Principles Back to Work / 151 - Sex and "affection": distinguishing between the two needs for physical contact t As need continues, so does the possibility of fulfillment - Understanding and defining our needs from th