In established Chinese and other Asian cultures the aged were highly valued and cared for. The Igabo tribesmen of Eastern Nigeria value dependency in their aged and implicate them in care of children and the administration of tribal affairs (Shelton, A. in Kalish R. Uni Michigan 1969).

In Eskimo culture the grandmother was pushed out into the ice-flow to die as soon as she became useless.

Western societies today commonly resemble to galore degree the Eskimo culture, only the “ice-flows” have names such a “Sunset Vista” and the like. Younger generations no longer assign status to the aged and their abandonment

is always in peril of getting the social norm.

There has been a tendency to remove the aged from their homes and put them  in custodial care. To a good deal of degree the government provides domiciliary care services to prevent or delay this, but the motivation probably has more

to do with expense than humanity.

In Canada and numerous constituents of the USA old humans are being utilised as foster-grandparents in child care agencies.

SOME BASIC DEFINITIONS

What is Aging?

Aging: Aging is a natural phenomenon that refers to changes occurring allround the life span and result in divergences in structure and function among the youthful and elder generation.

Gerontology: Gerontology is the study of aging and includes science, psychology and sociology.

Geriatrics: A comparatively new field of medicine specialising in the health troubles of modern age.

Social aging: Refers to the social habits and roles of humans with respect to their culture and society. As social aging increments person commonly experience a decrease in significant social interactions.

Biological aging: Refers to the physical changes in the body systems for the duration of the later decades of life. It may start out long before the individual  reaches chronological age 65.

Cognitive aging: Refers to decreasing capacity to assimilate new selective information and learn new behaviours and skills.

GENERAL PROBLEMS OF AGING

Eric Erikson (Youth and the life cycle. Children. 7:43-49 Mch/April 1960) invented an “ages and stages” theory of human

development that involved 8 stages after birth each of which involved a basic dichotomy representing best case and worst case outcomes. Below are the dichotomies and their developmental relevance:

Prenatal stage – conception to birth.

1. Infancy. Birth to 2 years – basic trust vs. basic distrust. Hope.

2. Early childhood, 3 to 4 years – autonomy vs. self doubt/shame. Will.

3. Play age, 5 to 8 years – initiative vs. guilt. Purpose.

4. School age, 9to 12 – industry vs. inferiority. Competence.

5. Adolescence, 13 to 19 – identity vs. identity confusion. Fidelity.

6. Young adulthood – intimacy vs. isolation. Love.

7. Adulthood, generativity vs. self absorption. Care.

8. Mature age- Ego Integrity vs. Despair. Wisdom.

This stage of older adulthood, i.e. stage 8, begins in regards to the time of retirement and proceeds allround one’s life. Achieving ego integrity  is a sign of maturity while failing to reach this stage is an indication of poor development in prior stages through the life course.

Ego integrity: This means coming to receive one’s whole life and reflecting on it in a positive manner. According to Erikson, achieving

integrity means completely accepting one’ self and coming to terms with death. Accepting obligation for one’s life and being competent to review

the past with gratification is essential. The disability to do this leads to desperation and the person will commence to fear death. If a favourable remainder is achieved for the duration of this stage, then wisdom is developed.

Psychological and personality aspects:

Aging has psychological implications. Next to dying our acknowledgement that we are aging may be one of the most unfathomed shocks we ever receive. Once we pass the invisible line of 65 our years are bench marked for the remainder of the game of life. We are no longer “mature age” we are rather classified as “old”, or “senior citizens”. How we cope with the changes we face and stresses of modified status depends on our basic personality. Here are 3 basic personality types that have been identified. It may be a oversimplification but it makes the point in regards to personality effectively:

a. The autonomous – persons who seem to have the resources for self-renewal. They may be committed to a goal or idea and committed to continuing productivity. This appears to protect them more or less even versus physiological aging.

b.The adjusted – persons who are rigid and missing out in adaptability but are supported by their power, prestige or well structured routine. But if their circumstance changes drasti they become psychiatric casualties.

c.The anomic. These are persons who do not have clear inner values or a protective life vision. Such persons have been described as prematurely resigned and they may deteriorate rapidly.

Summary of stresses of old age.

a. Retirement and scaled down income. Most humans rely on work for self worth, identity and social interaction. Forced retirement may be demoralising.

b. Fear of invalidism and death. The increased prospect of falling prey to disease from which there is no recovery is a continual

source of anxiety. When one has a heart attack or stroke the stress becomes much worse.

Some people face death with equanimity, ofttimes psychologically supported by a religion or philosophy. Others may welcome death as an end to suffering or insoluble troubles and with little concern for life or humane existence. Still others face approaching death with suffering of outstanding stress versus which they have no ego defenses.

c. Isolation and loneliness. Older people face inevitable loss of loved ones, friends and contemporaries. The loss of a spouse whom one has depended on for companionship and moral aid is peculiarly distressing. Children grow up, marry and become preoccupied or move away. Failing memory, visual and aural disablement may all work to make social fundamental interaction difficult. And if this

then leads to a souring of outlook and rigidity of attitude then social fundamental interaction becomes further lessened and the person may not even employ the avenues for social action that are still available.

d. Reduction in sexual function and physical attractiveness. Kinsey et al, in their Sexual behaviour in the humane male,

(Phil., Saunders, 1948) found that there is a gradual decrease in sexual action with advancing age and that somewhat gratifying patterns of sexual action may proceed into extreme old age. The aging person likewise has to adjust to loss of sexual attractiveness in a society which puts extreme special and significant stress on sexual attractiveness. The adjustment in self effigy and self conception that are required may be very hard to make.

e. Forces tending to self devaluation. Often the experience of the older generation has little sensed relevance to the difficultnesses of the young and the older person becomes deprived of participation in decision making both in occupational and family settings. Many parents are seen as undesirable burdens and their children may secretly wish they would die so they may be free of the burden and experience a great deal of financial relief or benefit. Senior citizens may be pushed into the role of being an old person with all this implies in terms of self devaluation.

4 Major Categories of Problems or Needs:

Health.

Housing.

Income maintenance.

Interpersonal relations.

BIOLOGICAL CHANGES

Physiological Changes: Catabolism (the breakdown of protoplasm) overtakes anabolism (the build-up of protoplasm). All body schemes are affected and repair schemes become slowed. The aging procedure occurs at dissimilar rates in dissimilar individuals.

Physical aspect and other changes:

Loss of subcutaneous fat and less elastic skin gives rise to wrinkled appearance, sagging and loss of smoothness of body contours. Joints stiffen and become painful and range of joint motion becomes restricted, general

mobility lessened.

Respiratory changes:

Increase of fibrous tissue in chest walls and lungs leads restricts respiratory motion and less oxygen is consumed. Older people more likelyto have lower respiratory contagions whereas young people have upper respiratory infections.

Nutritive changes:

Tooth decay and loss of teeth may detract from ease and enjoyment in eating. Atrophy of the taste buds means feed is inclined to be tasteless and this will have to be taken into account by carers. Digestive changes occur from lack of exercise (stimulating intestines) and decrease in digestive juice production. Constipation and indigestion are likely to follow as a result. Financial troubles may lead to the elderly eating an excess of cheap carbohydrates rather than the more pricey protein and vegetable foods and this exacerbates the problem, leading to scaled down vitamin intake and such troubles as anemia and increased susceptibility to infection.

Adaptation to stress:

All of us face stress at all ages. Adaptation to stress requires the consumption of energy. The 3 main phases of stress are:

1. Initial alarm reaction. 2. Resistance. 3. Exhaustion

and if stress proceeds tissue harm or aging occurs. Older persons have had a lifetime of dealing with stresses. Energy reserves are depleted and the older person succumbs to stress earlier than the younger person. Stress is cumulative over a lifetime. Research results, including experiments with animals proposes that each stress leaves us more vulnerable to the next and that though we might think we’ve “bounced back” 100% in fact each stress leaves it scar. Further, stress is psycho-biological meaning

the kind of stress is irrelevant. A physical stress may leave one more vulnerable to psychological stress and vice versa. Rest does not wholly restore one after a stressor. Care laborers need to be mindful of this and cognizant of the kinds of things that may invent stress for aged persons.

COGNITIVE CHANGE Habitual Behaviour:

Sigmund Freud noted that after the age of 50, treatment of neuroses by way of psychoanalysis was difficult because the views and reactions of older people were comparatively fixed and hard to shift.

Over-learned behaviour: This is behaviour that has been learned so well and repeated so often times that it has become automatic, like for example typing or running down stairs. Over-learned behaviour is hard to change. If one has lived a long time one is likely to have fixed views and ritualised behaviour patterns or habits.

Compulsive behaviour: Habits and complex mental states that have been learned in the course of finding ways to get over feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized and difficultness are very hard to break. Tension reducing habits such as nail biting, incessant humming, smoking or drinking alcohol are in particular hard to alter at any age and in particular hard for people who have been practising them over a life time.

The psychology of over-learned and compulsive behaviours has severe significances for older humans who find they have to live in what for them is a new and alien environs with new rules and power relations.

Information acquisition:

Older people have a continual background of neural noise making it more difficult for them to sort out and interpret complex sensory

input. In talking to an older person one will have to turn off the TV, eliminate as a good deal of noises and beguilements as possible, talk slowly

and relate to one message or idea at a time.

Memories from the distant past are more inviolable than more recent memories. New memories are the introductory to fade and last to return.

Time patterns also may get mixed – old and new may get mixed.

Intelligence.

Intelligence reaches a peak and may stay high with little deterioration if there is no neurological damage. People who have unusually high intelligence to begin with seem to suffer the least decline. Education and stimulation likewise seem to play a role in sustaining intelligence.

Intellectual impairment. Two diseases of old age causing cognitive decline are Alzheimer’s syndrome and Pick’s syndrome. In Pick’s syndrome there is disability to concentrate and learn and likewise affective responses are impaired.

Degenerative Diseases: Slow progressive physical degeneration of cells in the nervous system. Genetics appear to be an indispensable factor. Usually commence after age 40 (but may take place as early as 20s).

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE Degeneration of all areas of cortex but in particular frontal and temporal lobes. The affected cells in truth die. Early sensations or changes resemble neurotic disorders: Anxiety, depression, restlessness sleep difficulties.

Progressive deterioration of all intellectual faculties (memory deficiency being the most well known and obvious). Total mass of the brain decreases, ventricles become larger. No traditionalisti treatment.

PICK’S DISEASE Rare degenerative disease. Similar to Alzheimer’s in terms of onset, symptomatology and possible genetic

aetiology. However it affects circumscribed areas of the brain, in particular the frontal areas which leads to a loss of normal affect.

PARKINSON’S DISEASE Neuropathology: Loss of neurons in the basal ganglia.

Symptoms: Movement abnormalities: rhythmical alternating tremor of extremities, eyelids and tongue along with rigidity of the muscles and slowness of motion (akinesia).

It was once thought that Parkinson’s impairment of normal physiological function was not affiliated with intellectual deterioration, but it is now known that there is an association amidst international intellectual handicap and Parkinson’s where it occurs late in life.

The cells lost in Parkinson’s are related with the neuro-chemical Dopamine and the motor sensations or changes of Parkinson’s are affiliated the dopamine deficiency. Treatment involves administration of dopamine precursor L-dopa which may alleviate sensations or changes including intellectual impairment. Research proposes it may perchance fetch to the fore aroused effects in people who are in need of medical care who have had

psychiatric disease at galore prior stage in their lives.

AFFECTIVE DOMAIN In old age our self conception gets it is final revision. We make a final assessment of the value of our lives and our remainder of success and failures.

How well a person adapts to old age may be predicated by how well the person adapted to earlier substantial changes. If the person suffered an aroused crisis each time a significant modify was necessitated then adaptation to the exigencies of old age may likewise be difficult. Factors such as economic security, geographic emplacement and physical health are indispensable to the adaptive process.

Need Fulfilment: For all of us, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory, we are not free to pursue the higher needs of self actualisation unless the basic needs are secured. When one considers that many, perhaps most, old persons are living in poverty and continually concerned with basic survival needs, they are not likely to be happily satisfying needs related to prestige, accomplishment and beauty.

Maslow’s Hierarchy

Physiological

Safety

Belonging, love, identification

Esteem: Achievement, prestige, success, self respect

Self actualisation: Expressing one’s interests and endowments to the full.

Note: Old humans who have secured their basic needs may be motivated to work on tasks of the most eminent levels in the hierarchy – activenesses concerned with aesthetics, creative thinking and altruistic matters, as compensation for loss of sexual attractiveness and athleticism. Aged care laborers fixated on getting old people to focus on social activenesses may only succeed in discouraging and hindering and irritating them if their basic survival worries are not secured to their satisfaction.

DISENGAGEMENT

Social aging according to Cumming, E. and Henry, W. (Growing old: the aging procedure of disengagement, NY, Basic 1961) follows a well specified pattern:

1. Change in role. Change in occupation and productivity. Possibly change

in attitude to work.

2. Loss of role, e.g. retirement or death of a husband.

3. Reduced social interaction. With loss of role social interactions are

diminished, eccentric adjustment may further reduce social interaction, damage

to self concept, depression.

4. Awareness of scarcity of remaining time. This develops further curtailment of

activity in interest of saving time.

Havighurst, R. et al (in B. Neugarten (ed.) Middle age and aging, U. of Chicago, 1968) and others have suggested that disengagement is not an inevitable process. They believe the needs of the old are fundamentally the same as in middle age and the activenesses of middle age must be extended as long as possible. Havighurst points out the decrease in social fundamental interaction of the aged is oftentimes largely the

result of society withdrawing from the person as much as the reverse. To combat this he believes the person will have to vigorously protest the limitations of his social world.

DEATH The fear of the dead amongst tribal societies is well established. Persons who had ministered to the dead were taboo and required observe respective rituals including seclusion for varying periods of time. In numerous societies from South America to Australia it is taboo for sure people to utter the name of the dead. Widows and widowers are expected to observe rituals in respect for the dead.

Widows in the Highlands of New Guinea around Goroka chop of one of their own fingers. The dead proceed their existence as spirits and upsetting them may fetch dire consequences.

Wahl, C in “The fear of death”, 1959 noted that the fear of death occurs as early as the 3rd year of life. When a child loses a pet or grandparent fears reside in the unspoken questions: Did I cause it? Will occur to you (parent) soon? Will this occur to me? The child in such situations needs to re-assure that the departure is not a censure, and that the parent is not likely to depart soon. Love, grief, guilt, anger are a mix of conflicting emotions that are experienced.

CONTEMPORARY ATTITUDES TO DEATH

Our culture places high value on youth, beauty, high status occupations, social class and envisioned future activenesses and achievement. Aging and dying are refused and fended off in this system. The death of each person reminds us of our own mortality.

The death of the elderly is less disturbing to members of Western society because the aged are not particularly valued. Surveys have established that nurses for example attach more importance to saving a young life than an old life. In Western society there is a pattern of avoiding dealing with the aged and dying aged patient.

Stages of dying. Elisabeth Kubler Ross has specialised in working with dying persons who requires medical care and in her “On death and dying”, NY, Macmillan, 1969, summarised 5 stages in dying.

1. Denial and isolation. “No, not me”.

2. Anger. “I’ve lived a good life so why me?”

3. Bargaining. Secret deals are struck with God. “If I may live until…I promise to…”

4. Depression. (In frequent the greatest psychological problem of the aged is depression). Depression results from real and threatened loss.

5. Acceptance of the inevitable.

Kubler Ross’s typology as set out above should, I believe be taken with a grain of salt and not slavishly accepted. Celebrated US Journalist David Rieff who was in June ’08 a guest of the Sydney writer’s festival in relation to his book, “Swimming in a sea of death: a son’s memoir” (Melbourne University Press) expressly refused the validity of the Kubler Ross typology in his Late Night Live consultation (Australian ABC radio) with Philip Adams June 9th ’08. He said something to the effect that his mother had regarded her approaching death as murder. My own experience with dying people proposes that the humane ego is extraordinarily resilient. I recall visiting a dying colleague in hospital just days before his death. He said, “I’m dying, I don’t like it but there’s not one thing I may do in regards to it”, and then went on to chortle when it comes to how senior academics at an Adelaide university had told him they were submitting his name for a the Order of Australia (the new “Knighthood” alternate in Australia). Falling in and out of lucid thought with an oxygen tube in his nostrils he was notwithstanding still highly fascinated in the “vain glories of the world”. This observation to me seemed consistent with Rieff’s negative assessment of Kubler Ross’s theories.

THE AGED IN RELATION TO YOUNGER PEOPLE

The aged part with the young the same needs: However, the aged many times have less or weaker resources to meet those needs. Their need for social fundamental interaction may be ignored by family and care workers.

Family ought to make time to visit their aged members and invite them to their homes. The aged like to visit children and relate to them through games and stories.

Meaningful relationships may be developed by way of foster-grandparent programs. Some aged are not conscious of their income and health entitlements. Family and friends ought to take the time to explain these. Some aged are too proud to access their entitlements and this problem ought to be addressed in a kindly way where it occurs.

It is best that the aged be permitted as much choice as possible in matters related to living arrangements, social life and lifestyle.

Communities serving the aged need to provide for the aged thru such things as lower curbing, and ramps.

Carers need to thoroughly and closely question or examine their own attitude to aging and dying. Denial in the carer is detected by the aged person and it may inhibit the aged person from expressing negative sensations – fear, anger. If the person may express these sensations to someone then that person is less likely to die with a sense of isolation and bitterness.

A METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE

The following notes are my interpretation of a Dr. Depak Chopra lecture entitled, “The New Physics of Healing” which he staged to the 13th Scientific Conference of the American Holistic Medical Association. Dr. Depak Chopra is an endocrinologist and a former Chief of Staff of New England Hospital, Massachusetts. I am deliberately omitting the detail of his explanations of the more abstract, ephemeral and arguable ideas.

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In the lecture Dr. Chopra presents a model of the universe and of all organisms as structures of interacting centres of electromagnetic energy linked to each other in such a way that anything affecting one percentage of a scheme or structure has ramifications all around the entire structure. This model becomes an analogue not only for what happens within the structure or organism itself, but among the organism and both it is physical and social environments. In other words there is a correlation amongst psychological

conditions, health and the aging process. Dr. Chopra in his lecture reconciles ancient Vedic (Hindu) doctrine with innovative psychology and quantum physics.

Premature Precognitive Commitment: Dr. Chopra invokes experiments that have shown that flies kept for a long time in a jar do not speedily leave the jar when the top is taken off. Instead they receive the jar as the limit of their universe. He also points out that in India baby elephants are many times held tethered to a little twig or sapling. In adulthood when the elephant is capable of pulling over a medium sized tree it may still be with great success tethered to a twig! As another example he points to experiments in which fish are bred on

2 sides of a fish tank containing a divider amid the 2 sides. When the divider is got rid of the fish are slow to learn that they may now swim all around the whole tank but rather stay in the division that they receive as their universe. Other experiments have demonstrated that kittens brought up in an surroundings of vertical stripes and structures, when freed in adulthood keep bumping into anything aligned horizontally as if they were unable to see anything that is horizontal. Conversely kittens brought up in an environs of horizontal stripes when freed bump into vertical structures, apparently unable to see them.

The whole point of the above experiments is that they demonstrate Premature Precognitive Commitment. The lesson to be learned is that our sensory apparatus formulates as a result of primary experience and how we’ve been taught to interpret it.

What is the real look of the world? It doesn’t exist. The way the world looks to us is determined by the sensory receptors we have and our interpretation of that look is determined by our untimely precognitive commitments. Dr Chopra makes the point that less than a billionth of the available stimuli make it into our nervous systems. Most of it is screened, and what gets through to us is whatsoever we are

expecting to find on the basis of our precognitive commitments.

Dr. Chopra likewise discusses the sicknesses that are in truth caused by mainstream medical interventions, but this material gets too far away from my central intention. Dr. Chopra discusses in lay terms the physics of matter, energy and time by way of establishing the wider context of our existence. He makes the point that our bodies including the bodies of plants are mirrors of cosmic rhythms and exhibit changes correlating even with the tides.

Dr. Chopra cites the experiments of Dr. Herbert Spencer of the US National Institute of Health. He injected mice with Poly-IC, an immuno-stimulant while making the mice repeatedly smell camphor. After the effect of the Poly-IC had worn off he again exposed the mice to the camphor smell. The smell of camphor had the effect of causing the mice’s immune system to mechanically strengthen

as if they had been injected with the stimulant. He then took another batch of mice and injected them with cyclophosphamide which have a tendancy to ruin the immune system while exposing them to the smell of camphor. Later after being returned to normal just the smell of camphor was sufficient to cause destruction of their immune system. Dr. Chopra points out that whether or not camphor intensified or

destroyed the mice’s immune scheme was totally determined by an interpretation of the meaning of the smell of camphor. The interpretation is not just in the brain but in each cell of the organism. We are bound to our imagination and our

early experiences.

Chopra cites a study by the Massachusetts Dept of Health Education and Welfare into danger constituents for heart impairment of normal physiological function – family history, cholesterol etc. The 2 most indispensable risk constituents were found to be psychological measures – Self  Happiness Rating and Job Satisfaction. They found most persons passed away of heart sickness on a Monday!

Chopra says that for each sentiment there is a molecule. If you are experiencing tranquillity your body will be fabricating natural valium. Chemical changes in the brain are reflected by changes in other cells including blood cells. The brain develops neuropeptides and brain structures are chemically tuned to these neuropeptide receptors. Neuropeptides (neurotransmitters) are the chemical concommitants of thought. Chopra points out the white blood cells (a portion of the immune system) have neuropeptide receptors and are “eavesdropping” on our thinking. Conversely the immune scheme develops it is own neuropeptides which may influence the nervous system. He goes on to say that cells in all parts of the body including heart and kidneys for example likewise develop neuropeptides and

neuropeptide sensitivity. Chopra assures us that most neurologists would agree that the nervous scheme and the immune scheme are parallel systems.

Other studies in physiology: The blood interlukin-2 levels of medical students decreased as exam time neared and their interlukin receptor capacities likewise lowered. Chopra says if we are having fun to the point of exhilaration our natural interlukin-2 levels become higher. Interlukin-2 is a powerful and very costly anti-cancer drug. The body is a printout of consciousness. If we could change the way we look at our bodies at a genuine, unfathomed level then our bodies would actually change.

On the subject of “time” Chopra cites Sir Thomas Gall and Steven Hawkins, stating that our description of the universe as having a past, present, and future are constructed altogether out of our interpretation of change. But in

reality linear time doesn’t exist.

Chopra explains the work of Alexander Leaf a former Harvard Professor of Preventative Medicine who toured the world investigating societies where people  lived beyond 100 years (these included constituents of Afghanistan, Soviet Georgia, Southern Andes). He looked at possible elements including climate, genetics, and diet. Leaf concluded the most essential factor was the collective sensing of aging in these societies.

Amongst the Tama Humara of the Southern Andes there was a collective faith that the older you got the more physically competent you got. They had a tradition of running and the older one became then in general the better at running one got. The best runner was aged 60. Lung capacity and other measures genuinely bettered with age. People were healthful until well into their 100s and passed from physical life in their sleep. Chopra remarks that things have changed since the introduction of Budweiser (beer) and TV.

[DISCUSSION: How might TV be a factor in altering the former idealisti state of things?]

Chopra refers to Dr. Ellen Langor a former Harvard Psychology professor’s work. Langor advertised for 100 volunteers aged over 70 years. She took them to a Monastery outside Boston to play “Let’s Pretend”. They were divided into 2 groups each of which resided in a dissimilar share of the building. One group, the control group expended assorted days talking when it comes to the 1950s. The other group, the experimental group had to live as if in the year 1959 and talk in regards to it in the present tense. What appeared on their TV screens were the old newscasts and movies. They read old newsprints and magazines of the period. After 3 days everyone was photographed and the photographs judged by independent judges who knew not one thing of the nature of the experiment. The experimental group seemed to

have gotten younger in appearance. Langor then arranged for them to be tested for 100 physiological parameters of aging which included of course blood pressure, near point imaginativeness and DHEA levels. After 10 days of living as if in 1959 all parameters had reversed by the equivalent of at least 20 years.

Chopra concludes from Langor’s experiment: “We are the metabolic end product of our sensory experiences. How we interpret them depends on the collective mindset which influences person biological entropy and aging.”

Can one escape the current collective mindset and reap the gains in longevity and health? Langor says, society won’t let you escape. There are too a heap of reminders of how most people think linear time is and how it expresses itself in entropy and aging – men are naughty at 40 and on social welfare at 55, women reach menopause at 40 etc. We get to see so numerous other humans aging and dying that it sets the pattern that we follow.

Chopra concludes we are the metabolic product of our sensory experience and our interpretation gets structured in our biology itself. Real modify comes from modify in the collective knowingness – other than as supposed or expected it cannot take place within the individual.

Readings

Chopra, D. The New Physics of Healing. 735 Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado 83002,

Phone. +303 449 6229.

Coleman, J. C. Abnormal psychology and progressed life. Scott Foresman & Co.

Lugo, J. and Hershey, L. Human development a multidisciplinary approach to the psychology of person growth, NY, Macmillan.

Dennis. Psychology of humane behaviour for nurses. Lond. W. B.Saunders.

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