Sublime

In my work with people in the helping professions, I have often been confronted with a childhood history that seems significant to me. • There was a mother* who at the core was emotionally insecure and who depended for her equilibrium on her child’s behaving in a particular way. This mother was able to hide her insecurity from her child and from ev

As a baby he could go for days without sleeping, and the “terrible-two” temper tantrums persisted through toddlerhood and seemed to grow proportionately with each birthday. He was extremely oppositional and his mother and father couldn’t find a way to discipline him, although they tried every parenting technique and spent a great deal of time in pa

He reported that she was always involved with the kids. With no friends of her own, she turned to her children for companionship and affirmation of her worth.