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OgsyedIE • today at 6:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Because this is a technical article with nonstandard jargon, I'm going to state the most important piece of tacit knowledge that I know psychology professionals have but do not communicate to laymen (I personally came across it somewhere when reading the complete works of Eric Berne, but I can't recall exactly where).

Any apparent disorder in a person or persons has to be decomposed into the innate parts that existed prior to birth and the environmental experiences that happened afterwards as a prerequisite for any kind of theorising to give useful results instead of noise. They call this the diathesis-stress model and it's easily overlooked.


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boplicity • today at 7:15 PM

> the innate parts that existed prior to birth

What does this mean? Do you mean the congenital aspects of a disorder?

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