“If we turn our backs on something because it is difficult to understand and indignantly refer to it as “inhuman,” we will never be able to learn anything about its nature. The risk will then be greater, when we next encounter it, of once again aiding and abetting it by our innocence and naivete.”
“If [...]
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“For Your Own Good” by Alice Miller
Posted in Child Psychology, General Psychology on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The Family Crucible” by Augustus Y. Napier with Carl Whitaker
Posted in General Psychology on June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Just as most suicides require a minimum of two “parties” (someone who wants to die and someone who wants him or her dead), therapeutic growth takes collaboration. The family must want to change, and the therapist must want them to change. While a model for this mutual effort has been created in the [...]
“Man’s search for meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl
Posted in General Psychology on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything for the circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded [...]
