Is the Nervous System Sympathetic?

Abstract

Attachment type and threat responses correlate via insecure attachments being more prone to display submissive threat responses and behaviours. Pinning the blame on parenting and childhood experiences for dictating our reactions, especially rape responses and the larger social effect on what contributes to the victim mentality and prevents people from speaking out against attackers. Genetics and the nervous/ parasympathetic nervous system are also looked into as causes for the submissive responses that is found more in women and especially those that are insecurely attached.

There is a link between theories such as the critical period for an explanation as to why rape responses may be naturally selective in the same way rape behaviour is, the maladapted or incomplete internal working model therefore may cause a regression to a self-soothing primal state which utilises these behaviours for survival.