Sublime

The twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald W. Winnicott observed that children playing within a certain radius of their mothers display higher levels of creativity in their games than those who play farther away.

A fascinating addition to Berne’s model of the ego states is the socio-cognitive approach of an Italian research group led by Professor Pio Scilligo, who passed away in 2009 (Bastianelli & Ceridono, 2012; De Luca & Tosi, 2011; Scilligo, 2011). Scilligo’s research relied on, among others, the interpersonal model, Structural Analysis of Social

Children in this age-group typically have a foot in both worlds. That’s why they pretend so well.

The Parent has two main functions. First, it enables the individual to act effectively as the parent of actual children, thus promoting the survival of the human race.

We want him to be assertive, but not aggressive; to be empathetic, but not naive; to be “a doer,” but also introspective; to be perseverant, but not stubborn; to be prepared, but not obsessive; to help people, but not enable them . . .

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778),

The Parent has two main functions. First, it enables the individual to act effectively as the parent of actual children, thus promoting the survival of the human race. Its value in this respect is shown by the fact that in raising children, people orphaned in infancy seem to have a harder time than those from homes unbroken into adolescence.

The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, co-authored in the recent 6th Edition with Molyn Leszcz.

2. A Caring Exercise