To deepen our grasp of this difficult subject, it is critical to realize that each person contains many modules shaped during childhood. There are developmental traumas, specific traumas and childhood era traumas that leave strong modules that are triggered in the present time in almost unpredictable ways. Eric Berne, the founder of Transactional Analysis, made an important point when he distinguished between exclusion and contamination. Putting that within the LibPsych context, exclusion means that a person is almost fully lost in a given module, almost because another part that is analytical does keep track of what is going on. An example is a fat person eating an entire cake even as they know that this is bad for himself.
Contamination refers to being strongly influenced by a module while another part has center stage.
An example is a person taking a test at college while turning on a magical three to six year old developmental age and wishing through some questions. The contention of Liberation Psychotherapy is that attempts at understanding humans or being therapeutic with humans without accepting modularity are doomed to failure. They lead to simple psychiatric formulas of sick or well, or simple theological formulas of sinful or pure. When, however, an awareness of complexity and modularity are in place, true therapy can begin.