"The mother can feel herself the center of attention, for her child's eyes follow her everywhere. A child cannot run a…"

"Accommodation to parental needs often (but not always) leads to the "as-if personality." This person develops in such…"

"The true self cannot communicate because it has remained unconscious, and therefore undeveloped, in its inner prison.…"

"Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history."

"If a person is able … to experience the reality that he was never loved as a child for what he was but was instead ne…"

"The true opposite of depression is neither gaiety nor absence of pain, but vitality—the freedom to experience spontan…"

"When our children can consciously experience their early helplessness and rage, they will no longer need to ward off …"

"Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding."

"Hard as it is to believe, in the entire world there is not a single faculty in which a degree is offered in the study…"

"Psychoanalysis does not distort the truth by accident. It does so by necessity. It is an effective system for the sup…"