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We Are Human Less By Virtue Of Our Ideal Goals Than By The Vice Of Our Inferiority.

Attention Is The Cardinal Psychological Virtue. On It Depends Perhaps The Other Cardinal Virtues, For There Can Hardly Be Faith Nor Hope Nor Love For Anything Unless It First Receives Attention.

One Strand Of Psychotherapy Is Certainly To Help Relieve Suffering, Which Is A Genuine Medical Concern. If Someone Is Bleeding, You Want To Stop The Bleeding. Another Medical Aspect Is The Treatment Of Chronic Complaints That Are Disabling In Some Way. And Many Of Our Troubles Are Chronic. Life Is Chronic. So There Is A Reasonable, Sensible, Medical Side To Psychotherapy.

It's A Terrible Cruelty Of Predatory Capitalism: Both Parents Now Have To Work. A Family Has To Have Two Incomes In Order To Buy The Things That Are Desirable In Our Culture. So The Degradation Of Motherhood - The Sense That Motherhood Isn't Itself A Calling - Also Arises From Economic Pressure.

Writing Books For Me Is Anyway Much Like A Military Campaign. I Confess To Fighting My Way Through With Military Metaphors. There Is A Strategy, An Overall Concept, And There Are Tactics Along The Way…tradition Would Say I Was A 'child Of Mars.'