{"id":2473,"date":"2010-02-03T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2010-02-03T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:00:56","slug":"greenville-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2010\/02\/03\/greenville-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the conditions to make this work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who develop <strong><em>Greenville Syndrome<\/em><\/strong> often view the authority figure as <em>giving<\/em> success &#8212; vocational, spiritual, social &#8212; by simply <em>not<\/em> destroying it. Thus, the authority figure becomes in control of the person\u2019s success.<\/li>\n<li>A person endures physical or ideological separation from outside people and groups so that only the authority figure&#8217;s perspective is available. Leaders routinely keep information from their people &#8212; specifically outsider&#8217;s views of the leader&#8217;s actions. This isolation keeps the person totally dependent on the leader for information.<\/li>\n<li>The authority figure threatens to cut-off the person from his approval, his property (&#8220;campus&#8221;), or his fellowship. That person judges it safer and easier to align with the authority, endure the difficulties of separation, and obey rather than to disagree and face utter failure.<\/li>\n<li>The person sees the authority figure as showing some degree of affection. A simple positive gesture of attention (&#8220;being gracious&#8221; or &#8220;being nice&#8221;) is the cornerstone of <strong><em>Greenville Syndrome<\/em><\/strong>; the condition will not develop unless the authority exhibits some affection toward the person. However, people often misinterpret a lack of negative attention as affection and may even develop feelings of appreciation for this perceived benevolence &#8212; &#8220;He&#8217;s always been nice to <em>me<\/em>.&#8221; If the authority figure were purely evil and abusive, a person would respond with hatred. But if the authority figure offers some positive attention &#8212; an emailed compliment, a &#8220;we really like you here&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0 a person will submerge the anger s\/he feels in response to the threat of failure and desperately concentrate on the authority figure\u2019s \u201cgood side\u201d to protect themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the conditions to make this work: People who develop Greenville Syndrome often view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[290,324,694],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speak","tag-fundamentalism","tag-greenville-syndrome","tag-spiritual-abuse"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Greenville Syndrome - 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