All Children Are Born To Grow, To

We Can Never Do The Right Thing As Long As We Are Out To Please Someone Else.

Child Abuse Damages A Person For Life And That Damage Is In No Way Diminished By The Ignorance Of The Perpetrator. It Is Only With The Uncovering Of The Complete Truth As It Affects All Those Involved That A Genuinely Viable Solution Can Be Found To The Dangers Of Child Abuse.

I Have Never Known A Patient To Portray His Parents More Negatively Than He Actually Experienced Them In Childhood But Always More Positively--because Idealization Of His Parents Was Essential For His Survival.

The Grandiose Person Is Never Really Free; First Because He Is Excessively Dependent On Admiration From Others, And Second, Because His Self-respect Is Dependent On Qualities, Functions, And Achievements That Can Suddenly Fail.

Every Life And Every Childhood Is Filled With Frustrations; We Cannot Imagine It Otherwise, For Even The Best Mother Cannot Satisfy All Her Child's Wishes And Needs. It Is Not The Suffering Caused By Frustration, However, That Leads To Emotional Illness, But Rather The Fact That The Child Is Forbidden By The Parents To Experience And Articulate This Suffering, The Pain Felt At Being Wounded.