We use the word impotent to mean helpless, ineffective, weak, lacking in vigor, and unable to take effective action. We discovered that characteristics of the impotent personality include being demanding, capricious, irresponsible, arrogant, whimsical, and insatiable. Such people have inflated
. They blame others for their own deficiencies and have tunnel vision. Their commitment to relationships is conditional, not steadfast.? Let’s take a look.When we examined the childhoods of people with impotent personalities, we found thattraining, emotional conditioning, teaches the child to be inert. Parents teach these children to expect a lot of assistance from others. Parents overindulge them in various ways. Parents believe the child is incapable and fragile.
These children make emotional and behavioral associations from how parents behave with them. Within a few years, they are emotionally conditioned. Whenever they desire something, they get it. Parents fulfill every request. They emotionally condition their children so that the children expect the job of fulfilling their desires will be done by other people, not by themselves. The children’s only part of the scenario is to cry, ask, or demand.
of impotents’ own deficiencies and inability to accept responsibility for themselves and their actions.When I work in therapy with people who have impotent personalities, we focus on their self-centric view in relationships that handicaps them from giving care to others. This is a knotty problem because of their emotional conditioning. They see themselves as needing all the care in the relationship.
When we see these traits together, we get a complete picture of a person with an impotent personality. We also appreciate how the emotional conditioning in childhood to be inert and helpless programs a child to live a repetitive and automatic life of not tackling life’s problems and instead expecting others to do for them.
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