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pete-walker-com-7548		Pete Walker, M.A. Psychotherapy			.html	text/html	3241	164	51	Variances in the childhood abuse/neglect pattern, birth order, and genetic predispositions result in individuals "choosing" and specializing in narcissistic (fight), obsessive/compulsive (flight), dissociative (freeze) or codependent (fawn) defenses. Fight types avoid real intimacy by unconsciously alienating others with their angry and controlling demands for the unmet childhood need of unconditional love; flight types stay perpetually busy and industrious to avoid potentially triggering interactions; freeze types hide away in their rooms and reveries; and fawn types avoid emotional investment and potential disappointment by barely showing themselves by hiding behind their helpful personas, over-listening, over-eliciting or overdoing for the other by giving service but never risking real self-exposure and the possibility of deeper level rejection. Unable to successfully employ fight, flight or fawn responses, the freeze type's defenses develop around classical dissociation, which allows him to disconnect from experiencing his abandonment pain, and protects him from risky social interactions any of which might trigger feelings of being reabandoned.	./cache/pete-walker-com-7548.html	./txt/pete-walker-com-7548.txt