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  %RECOGNIZE NAME DESCRIBE SYSTEMIC ORGANIZE ADDICT 911205

     It  is  difficult for people who are  trapped  within
addictive/codependent relationships to recognize, name and
describe   the  ORGANIZATIONAL   addictions/codependencies
which encourage them to maintain their personal addictions
and codependencies.    This  is  especially  so  when  the
ORGANIZATIONS   and  INSTITUTIONS  which  pass  alienative
judgement upon the dysfunctional behaviors of the  addicts
and  codependents are addictive/codependent  ORGANIZATIONS
which  are  highly  respected in the  community.

     It is  often  falsely  assumed  that highly respected
ORGANIZATIONS   and  INSTITUTIONS   (churches,    schools,
colleges,  universities,  law enforcement agencies,  etc.)
cannot be involved in addictive and codependent behaviors.
Those  individuals  who  are alienated by  such  respected
centers of judgment themselves tend to pass judgement upon
themselves  and  find  it  impossible to  see  that  those
ORGANIZATIONS and INSTITUTIONS which  pass  judgement upon
and  alienate individuals are  themselves  institutionally
much  like the individuals upon which they pass judgement;
i.e.,   trapped  in addictive and codependent patterns  of
thought,  feeling, attitude,  and behavior---and dishonest
about those patterns.

     Addicts and codependents (because of  their  diseased
patterns of thought,  feeling, attitudes and behavior) are
prone  to lack healthy self esteem;  and so lack the  self
confidence to recognize,  name and describe addictive  and
codependent behavior in highly respected ORGANIZATIONS and
INSTITUTIONS.    Addicts  and codependents  are  prone  to
regard themselves as embodying all the defects which  must
explain their difficulties;  and yet in insecure defensive
maneuvers   they deny to themselves and others the defects
which  they  perceive  to exist within themselves  as  the
explanation  of  their difficulties.    Thus they  do  not
recognize,   name,  or describe the  addictive/codependent
patterns  of  the organizations/institutions within  which
they are imprisoned.

     Organizational/institutional/system   addiction   and
codependence  are central to the maintenance of   personal
addiction and codependence.  Each dysfunctional pattern of
thoughts,   attitudes,  perceptions and behaviors tends to
obscure and confuse similar patterns in other  individuals
and in other organizations/institutions.   Healing in  one
domain  is nearly impossible in the absence of healing  in
other  domains.    Healing in all domains  must  occur  in
parallel to be effective and enduring.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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