“I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.”
Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child
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Swiss psychologist 1923–2010Related quotes
Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 230

“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”
Source: A Prisoner of Birth