ABSTRACT
The popular belief is that behaviours, such as drug taking, starvation, cult joining, alcohol abuse, meditation, occurs and then as a result of these an altered state follows. Without an understanding of the critical importance of the all-essential need in childhood and adolescence for self object responsiveness, the author have mistaken the language of the young person's howling pain at the loss of what holds his self-experience together for the language of toughness. The recognition of a distinguishable structure and the developmental structuring process connected with the self has come increasingly in recent years to be regarded as a focus of primary significance for human psychology. An appreciation of the developmental structuring process associated with the self was something to which the British psychoanalyst and pediatrician, Donald Willicott had made abundant contribution before his death in 1971.
