When a person withdraws, she may stay with the group physically, but does not transact with other group members. During withdrawal, the only stroke I can get or give are self strokes.

1. Withdrawal

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Manu Melwin Joy
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3. Withdrawal
• When a person
withdraws, she may
stay with the group
physically, but does not
transact with other
group members.
• During withdrawal, the
only stroke I can get or
give are self strokes.
• They try to avoid
psychological risk of
rejection.

4. Withdrawal
• Withdrawing is sometimes
a rational adult decision.
• People need time to be
alone, to relax, to think
their own thoughts, to
take stock of themselves
and to be rejuvenated in
their individual
humanness.

5. Withdrawal
• Withdrawing is sometimes
based on copying parents.
In this case, person imitates
parental behaviors.
• For example, a man
threatened by conflict with
his wife may withdraw as
his father did when his
mother got mad.

6. Withdrawal
• Withdrawing patterns
also come from child ego
state.
• These are often replays
of a person’s childhood
adaptations out of the
necessity for self
protection from pain or
conflict.
• They may also be the
result of training.

7. Withdrawal
• When a person withdraws
psychologically, it is often
into a fantasy world.
• These fantasies are likely to
be of uncensored pleasure
or violence, creative
imaginings or of learned
fears and catastrophic
expectations.
• Everyone withdraws into
fantasy world from time to
time.

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