Every experience we have in life is the experience of a relationship

About Dick Rauscher

Dick Rauscher is a writer, mental health therapist, and fundamental developer of primitive ego psychology.

Very early in Dick’s career as a mental health therapist, he recognized that most of the stress and unhappiness his clients were wrestling with came from their childhood experiences and their early childhood conditioning. This insight turned into a lifetime focus on the theory of Primitive Ego Psychology; an object relations theory focused on the early childhood ego beliefs and illusions that protected the fragile childhood ego’s sense of “self”. This primitive sense of self is now embedded in the collective consciousness of humanity.

The basic premise of primitive ego psychology is the reality that we use our minds to create the lives we live. Every experience we have in life is the experience of a relationship and our life reflects the sum total of all those relationship experiences. So it makes sense the more we know about how our minds work and how we think; the more successful our lives will be.

Primitive Ego Psychology helps people to awaken, become intentionally more self-aware, and embrace the skills and insights needed to mature and evolve their childhood primitive ego in order to live a successful and meaningful life.

Primitive Ego Psychology teaches that our “future” will become our “today”. There is no such thing as “the future”. There are only “possible” futures, and the future we create is always our choice. “Waiting is Not an Option” reminds us that the future we create will be determined by the choices we make, or fail to make, as individuals, and more importantly, as a species.

The collective primitive ego consciousness of humanity has created the fragile and dangerous civil, social, and economic structures that now threaten the future of humanity. "Waiting Is Not an Option" examines in detail why the social, civil, and economic collapse of those structures are all but certain in the future, and why the creation of self-reliant local communities and local economies is considered by Dick and many others to be the best possibility of long-term survival for the younger generations. The creation of these self-reliant communities and the urgent need to begin creating them now is a primary focus of "Waiting is Not an Option".

The creation of these self-reliant communities will be resisted by many. They will believe that not only are they not needed, but they will also insist that it will be impossible to create them.

"Waiting is not an Option" reminds us that “Everything is impossible until somebody believes in it enough to “make” it real." The failure to create these self-reliant local communities for long-term survival is not an option!