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Title: Organization-Activation and Gender Identity: Conflated Paradigms
Post by: Natasha on September 07, 2009, 06:51:08 AM
Organization-Activation and Gender Identity: Conflated Paradigms

Link (http://joanneproctor-hbs.blogspot.com/2009/09/organization-activation-and-gender.html)
Joanne Proctor
9/6/09

Organization-activation becomes distorted by attempts to make it fit the prevailing dogma.

Prior to the advent of John Money's theories something very close to organization-activation existed in the form of a biology is destiny paradigm.

Humans were understood to be born with innate or instinctive biological characteristics which were overlaid by individual experiences to produce a finished adult self.‭ ‬Personal responsibility lay in the individual's capacity to control those characteristics.