Upon release from Qincheng Prison in 1991, I, who had been led onto the path of political dissent by the psychological chains of June Fourth, lost the right to speak publicly in my own country and could only speak through the foreign media.
The good news: Overcoming approval addiction is easier than you realize, and once you do, you're free of the psychological chains that bind you from ever experiencing world-class success, happiness and most importantly the freedom to live life on your own terms.
While very specific pathways, such as modelling psychological chains of risk, or determining social influences, are important, broader models linking elements from bio- psycho- and social domains are likely to be the most productive in really gaining a deeper understanding of the problem.
Was Kweku simply "too exhausted to explain it, too exhausted to think: of other hospitals, of starting over,... of being reasonable, of being responsible, of being a father, of being forgiven?" Here one wishes the author would slow down and explore this chain of psychological events, rather than simply gesturing toward it with an alliterative list.
We can then say that you are psychologically continuous, now, with a past or future being just if some of your current mental states relate to those he or she is in then by a chain of psychological connections.
But, though the successes and failures are different depending on how I describe what I see, this does not mean that what is missing from the account is some extra, psychological event in the causal chain.
A plot may be an abstract, psychological journey, or a simple chain of events.
According to this view, then, some past action is my own (for purposes of accountability) just in case the person who performed the action is uniquely psychologically continuous with me (where this consists in overlapping chains of strong psychological connectedness).
The war had been fought and victory acquired, but what kept the women imprisoned wasn't simply physical chains, but the psychological torture that reminded them of the horrors they had endured, and those they knew for certain could harm them in the future.
He knows well the psychological blockages which keep light industries chained to the smoke and congested sprawl of the South; but logic, surely, must prevail – especially when he adds a dab of near lyricism to it.
