Under this heading I shall comment on matters in the news from my understanding of human nature based on object relations theory, the Mother/Infant bond, and the evolutionary context I have given them.

I had originally intended something like a blog: that was back before I started this process when I gave myself three years of usable life to play around with. The early stresses of acquiring a computer system and the basic skills to use it (i.e. navigating the shark pool), have caused more damage than I optimistically anticipated and I doubt if I'll be able to add as regularly as I would wish.

My motivations are twofold: the one my personal health, the other might be called public health. For the first few days when the system was working properly, back in May last year (2005), I did experience the invigorating effect of saying what I wanted and seeing it come up on the screen. If you've read chapter 9 you'll know about my theory of speech and language as an excretory system, and this is a good way to clear clogged up emotions and thoughts without becoming a pest to friends and chance acquaintances, not that I have much opportunity for that.

With regard to the other, I want to chip away (in the spirit of "it's better to knock out one small chip than to curse the wall") at the denial, or complacency, or whatever you want to call it, that leads Homo sapiens to knowingly inflict long-term damage on itself. Naturally, the denial, complacency, or whatever, exists in individuals, and it is the actions or inaction of masses of individuals that does the damage: global warming, destruction of forest, ocean, and other habitats, the using to extinction of species, natural resources the land etc., all offer examples of knowledge and intelligence losing out to the hominin psyche, which cannot see beyond individual survival.

In the same way that other scientists, Cassandra like, spell out the unwonted truth on the above issues, I will spell out on this website the truth about the mother/ infant bond, the primal relationship, and the damage we do to ourselves by our disregard for its importance. The discoveries of psychotherapists throughout the 20th century resulted in important improvements in the care of babies and small children, that is to say in mitigating the effects of "progress" upon their care i.e. when in hospital etc. But the absence of the evolutionary perspective, together with too much male and too little female input in society in general, has prevented similar benefits from the findings of object relations theorists.

The foundations of human personality and behaviour are laid down in the womb and in the first year of life, and as with any building however fine, if you've got cracks in the foundations you've got problems!

Way in:-to make sense of what I am writing I advise reading the paper The First Year of Life…… to get a handle on the theory behind my comments. The essay Part Selves I gives an account of Object Relations Theory as well as other theoretical approaches which you may find useful.