The community and family networks which helped sustain earlier generations have become scarcer for growing numbers of young parent...s. Those who lack links to these traditional sources of support are hard-pressed to find other resources, given the emphasis in our society on providing treatment services, rather than preventive services and support for health maintenance and well-being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wishes... on the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man ... begins and also largely ends with the ef...fect of one all-embracing force. That is organization--the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing someth...ing foreign, something at odds with nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The health plan was] constructed to be deconstructed. [Instead,] it was described as an ultimatum by our opponents and therefore ...used to undermine the process of reaching agreement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some fear that if parents start listening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that chi...ldren are in fact far less likely to be neglected when their parents' needs--for support, for friendship, for decent work, for health care, for learning, for play, for time alone--are being met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and wil...l stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the... College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »