Regression To The Stage Of Early Infancy

Wherever I Look, I See Signs Of The Commandment To Honor One's Parents And Nowhere Of A Commandment That Calls For The Respect Of A Child.

Many People Suffer All Their Lives From This Oppressive Feeling Of Guilt, The Sense Of Not Having Lived Up To Their Parents' Expectations. This Feeling Is Stronger Than Any Intellectual Insight They Might Have, That It Is Not A Child's Task Or Duty To Satisfy His Parents Needs. No Argument Can Overcome These Guilt Feelings, For They Have Their Beginnings In Life's Earliest Periods, And From That They Derive Their Intensity And Obduracy.

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.

One Of The Best Ways Of Keeping Your Temper In An Argument, As Most Of Us Know Only Too Well, Is Not To Listen To Anything The Other Person Has To Say.

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.