Elephant Syndrome
Learned Helplessness
- Article on how an elephant without chains will still think it has chains - https://pmcounseling.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/the-elephant-syndrome-learned-helplessness/
- Dr. Martin Seligman is the 'father of learned helplessness' - ie, the guy who studied it
- And - Seligman studies in humans showed why optimism is critical for coping - otherwise, we learn to be helpless. Article above is insightful.
