Sublime

One young woman, reared during the era of domestic containment, resented the fact that her mother had not been a full-time homemaker.

Dad deprivation still leaves boys vulnerable to Nazis—these days, neo-Nazi groups.

Troublemakers are impulsive: they seize on sudden opportunities to steal or vandalize, and lash out at people who cross them, heedless of the long-term consequences.35 These temptations can be counteracted with therapies that teach strategies of self-control. Troublemakers also have narcissistic and sociopathic thought patterns, such as that they a

Stan Davis,

These are lost children looking for an identity, looking for a way to feel strength, to feel like they matter.

The drug dealer, the ducking and diving political leader, the wife beater, the chronically “crabby” boss, the “hot shot” junior executive, the unfaithful husband, the company “yes man,” the indifferent graduate school adviser, the “holier than thou” minister, the gang member, the father who can never find the time to attend his daughter’s school pr

The teen years, Erickson observed, are primarily for trying on different identities while figuring out how to belong to the pack.26 Adolescence is the time we practice being independent, primarily by rebelling against adult control. Maltreated teens experience the same drive to define themselves, belong to a peer group, and rebel against the status

Ele explora a culpa e a apreensão quanto a nossa própria liberação — medos latentes de que talvez estejamos nos excedendo.

I’d developed a habit of discarding them before they could do the same to me.