Personality
Clusters are groups of distorted and self-defeating beliefs, what behavioral
scientists call schemas, which form challenging parts of our personality with
their habitual emotional and behavioral reactions. Many of these Personality
Clusters are the residual effects of trauma and ineffective emotional
upbringing. We see examples of these clusters in persons suffering from early
emotional abandonment, abuse, deprivation, and parental perfectionism. Often
these Personality Clusters or groups of beliefs reside just outside of
awareness. We may notice the impact of Personality Clusters when they abruptly
emerge in our lives with periods of painful emotions, distorted and
self-defeating thoughts, and behavior that pulls us into trouble such as
addictions or feeling very remote from others. These clusters of beliefs may
powerfully steer our lives in directions we'd rather not go.
