Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keepin...g with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situat...ion to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients--as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts--as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »