Sublime

Today, thanks in part to Nicholas’s shift in perspective, there are parrots on Xanax and Valium, there are many species from chickens to walruses being given antipsychotics, and there are cats on Prozac.

(A simopath – the technical name for this disorder escapes me – is a citizen convinced he is an ape or other simian. It is a disorder peculiar to the army, and discharge cures it.)

The nurturing parent is the other option within the overall parent part of the TA model. Some people have a well-established nurturing parent while others don’t, but the potential exists. In defining the nurturing parent, I use adjectives such as loving, supportive, feeding, nursing, accepting, or concerned. Some people can be very nurturing of oth

Yet the piglets and calves are separated from their mothers shortly after birth, and often pass their days without ever sucking at her teats or feeling the warm touch of her tongue and body. What Harry Harlow did to a few hundred monkeys,

Mon seul souvenir les concernant me renvoyait à mon enfance en URSS, où, livré à moi-même dans notre datcha de Monino (à quarante kilomètres de Moscou), je donnais à manger aux chats sauvages qui rôdaient dans les parages.