Cognitive Self Change by Bush Jack; Harris Daryl M.; Parker Richard J. & Daryl M. Harris & Richard J. Parker

Author:Bush, Jack; Harris, Daryl M.; Parker, Richard J. & Daryl M. Harris & Richard J. Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2016-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

Fred defied his guards persistently and physically. Fred felt himself under constant attack as a person by his guards. The driving thought in his mind was: “I can’t just let them do it to me.”

Randy experienced any interference with whatever he wanted to do as a threat to his integrity as a person.

Ross described his feelings about being denied a transfer to a lower-security institution. He saw this as one more personal insult: “Year after year of jabs, kicks, punches, attacks on my very being.”

Ross was aware that he was deliberately building a case in his mind against the authority of corrections. When he presented his thinking report, he pointed out exactly the point when his thoughts changed from focusing on this single event to the broad scope and history of injustice he had suffered at the hands of corrections. (“Here’s where I start building my case …”) Hating and resenting corrections became a major solace to Ross.

Other long-term prisoners describe their resentment of authority as becoming a life-principle. “It’s what I live for. Without it I couldn’t pull through.” “I’ve earned these feelings of hate and resentment and I’m not willing to give them up.”

(See, for instance, Jack Abbott, The Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison, 1981.)

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