“Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.”

—  Virgil Miller Newton

Source: Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal, p. 67

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are…" by Virgil Miller Newton?
Virgil Miller Newton photo
Virgil Miller Newton 15
American priest 1938

Related quotes

Dawn Butler photo

“I promised the youth that they would have a voice through me. We must encourage our youth, listen to them and help them to resolve youth issues. After all, they are our future.”

Dawn Butler (1969) British politician

Maiden speech on 24 May 2005
Context: I promised the youth that they would have a voice through me. We must encourage our youth, listen to them and help them to resolve youth issues. After all, they are our future. Guess what—not all youth are yobs, and not all yobs are youth. Furthermore, youths are victims of antisocial behaviour, more than any other group in our society. I will campaign and lobby extremely hard for my constituents in Brent, South to further their concerns and to put forward the case for social justice in Brent, South, the UK and worldwide.

Abhay Bang photo

“We decided to listen to our patients.”

Abhay Bang

Bang (2005) cited in: Alex Perry " The Listeners http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124299,00.html on time.com, Oct. 31, 2005.

Arthur Guirdham photo

“From this patient, and from others like her, I have learnt that seemingly epileptic reactions in adolescents can indicate the latter's capacity to step out of time. In such cases the apparent epileptic tendency disappears as the patient matures.”

Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992) British physician, psychiatrist and writer

Source: The Cathars and Reincarnation (1970), p. 16

D.H. Lawrence photo

“We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=U-SLXgFQ0hoC&q="We+have+to+hate+our+immediate+predecessors+to+get+free+from+their+authority"&pg=PA509#v=onepage to Edward Garnett (1 February 1913)

Douglas Coupland photo

“As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.”

Douglas Coupland book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“Industrial society has made of high school a social system of adolescents…set apart, in an institution of their own.”

James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995) American sociologist

The Adolescent Society (1961), p. 337. New York: Free Press.

“For the more paart, youthe is rebel,
Un-to reson & hatith her doctryne.”

Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) British writer

As for the moré part Youth is rebél
Unto Reasón, and hateth her doctrine.
Source: La Male Regle (c. 1405), Line 65; vol. 1, p. 27; translation p. 58.

Barack Obama photo

“There’s still enormous problems in our society. But democracy is the way that we solve them. That's how we got health care for more of our people.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2016, Remarks to the People of Cuba (March 2016)
Context: There’s still enormous problems in our society. But democracy is the way that we solve them. That's how we got health care for more of our people. That's how we made enormous gains in women’s rights and gay rights. That's how we address the inequality that concentrates so much wealth at the top of our society. Because workers can organize and ordinary people have a voice, American democracy has given our people the opportunity to pursue their dreams and enjoy a high standard of living.

“The causes of violence lie in our basic values and the way in which we bring up our children and youth.”

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

“We are not the adults in the sense that Kant intended, but adolescents. This is a problem, because we are the world's most heavily armed teenagers.”

Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Two, At the Arse End of the Late Great Enlightenment, p. 58

Related topics