Childhood patterns of abuse have often been replicated in adult relationships.
Not exact matches
The reasons can be early pubertal development, poverty, sexual
abuse in
childhood, lack
of parent's attention, lack
of career goals, family and cultural
patterns of early sex, substance
abuse, dropping out from school and poor school performance.
Compulsive self - destructive behavior
patterns like David's can be propelled unconsciously by an internalized sense
of badness common in
childhood emotional neglect,
abuse or abandonment.
Examining
Childhood Abuse Patterns and Sensitive Periods in Juvenile Sexual Offenders Grabell & Knight Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 21 (2), 2009 View Abstract Reviews literature on sexual abuse history and its impact on future juvenile sexual offen
Abuse Patterns and Sensitive Periods in Juvenile Sexual Offenders Grabell & Knight Sexual
Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 21 (2), 2009 View Abstract Reviews literature on sexual abuse history and its impact on future juvenile sexual offen
Abuse: A Journal
of Research and Treatment, 21 (2), 2009 View Abstract Reviews literature on sexual
abuse history and its impact on future juvenile sexual offen
abuse history and its impact on future juvenile sexual offending.
My expertise in the attachment system comes from both my background in early
childhood mental health, which is the period
of active formative processes in the attachment system (although we use the
patterns of the attachment system throughout our lives), and from also applying this attachment - related information directly with children in the foster care system who were the victims
of parental
abuse and neglect that created a variety
of severe distortions with their attachment system.
Anxious and disorganized early attachment
patterns intertwined with early
childhood trauma (emotional deprivation, physical / sexual
abuse) and the strain
of adversity or ongoing victimization may lead some clients to experience chronic and complex intrapsychic and interpersonal reactions.
The possible sexual
abuse origins
of this «source code» may be at the generational level
of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, representing the possible
childhood sexual
abuse victimization
of this parent, or the «source code» may have entered the trans - generational transmission
of attachment
patterns a generation earlier, with the parent
of the current narcissistic / (borderline) parent whose distorted parenting practices then produced the narcissistic / (borderline) personality organization
of the current parent, so that this particular «phrase»
of the «source code» (i.e., a role - reversal relationship in which the parent uses the child to meet the emotional and psychological needs
of the parent) is being passed on inter-generationally through several generations following the incest victimization trauma.
In summary, there was a high degree
of correspondence between the
patterns of different types
of childhood abuse and neglect identified in this representative sample and the ones described in a large German clinical sample.
Different
patterns of childhood abuse and neglect are associated with the degree
of severity
of mental disorders in adulthood.
For example, longitudinal prospective studies
of children
of mothers with schizophrenia have consistently identified a subgroup who present a stable
pattern of aggressive and / or antisocial behavior from a young age, 36,37 and studies
of children with depression identify a subgroup with conduct disorder.38 Among persons who develop a major mental disorder, substance
abuse in
childhood or adolescence is more strongly associated with violent crime in adulthood than substance
abuse in adulthood, 39 and individuals who will develop a major mental disorder may be more sensitive to the effects
of alcohol than others.40 These findings suggest that symptoms (eg, substance
abuse) that we and others are labeling as distinct disorders, may in fact be a part
of or at least related to the primary disorder.