A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a n...ew challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own fiel...d, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and ... to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-a...gain regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer ... its anti-intellectualism ... its puerile hymns ... and its faith-healing ... are made to order for King Kid America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal th...ing called human nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »