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Thus the immature origin of his conscience endangers man’s maturity and his works: infantile fear accompanies him through life.
Erik H. Erikson • Childhood and Society

Another foster-care buzzword is “independence,” which Paul counters with “interdependence.” “We’re all interdependent,” he points out. “The idea that we’re asking our young people to go out in the world completely alone and call themselves independent is crazy. We need to teach them how to be interdependent, which means teaching them how to have re
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Rogers stated his central hypothesis in one sentence: “If I can provide a certain type of relationship, the other will discover within himself the capacity to use that relationship for growth, and change and personal development will occur.”
Peter D. Kramer M.D. • On Becoming a Person
Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

As you can see, working with early attachment issues is very delicate business, and clearly not every therapist or form of therapy is suited to it.