What Your Head Was In: The Chaotic Self, Agency and Responsibility

Part 4 of 5. If environments shape us this deeply, does anyone choose anything? The answer needs a different theory of the self.

Content note: this article discusses the criminal justice system, restraint and detention.

By now an objection may be forming. If distress is produced by an ecosystem (Parts 1 and 2), and if burnout and crisis are what that ecosystem does to a monotropic bodymind over time (Part 3), then where is the person in all this? Does anyone choose anything? Is an…