by TheGangsAllHere » Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:01 pm
People who are traumatized or abused during their childhood develop core beliefs that dictate how they perceive the world and how they respond. Such as "I am bad," "I am unlovable," "People can't be trusted," etc. When they're treated well, it doesn't match up with those core beliefs, so they can't take it in and trust it.
There are newer, more science- and research-based theories of psychology that are given more credence today than Freud's ideas. And it's hard to get past his (later) belief that "neuroses" were based on childhood wishes, rather than that many of those disturbed behaviors were a result of actual childhood sexual abuse, not "fantasies" about having sex with one's parents.