A person is formed by the environment they live in. Psychology already knows that repeated painful experience — violence, neglect, rejection, emotional coldness, insensitivity, inconsistency of significant people — can create more rigid internal models of the self, others, and the world. This is what the article describes as “painful memories,” “unresolved internal conflicts,” disappointments, and so on. The process starts in the environment, becomes inner experience, and may harden into a rigid way of existing if it remains painful and unintegrated.
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