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Quotes by Psychiatrist
"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary."
"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."
"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens."
"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."
"It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day."
"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction."
"To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love."
"It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women."
"Women had to deal with the men's response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the women's response as men want more time in."
"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
"Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?"
"We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?"
"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
"No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him."
"Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another."
"Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued."
"Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age."
"A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life."
"Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children."
"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."
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