The Human Person

Was going through my therapy coursework today:


Because no two individuals ever have identical heredity endowments or the same environmental experiences, one can never predict with accuracy how people will react to a situation.


Damn right. And more disturbing:


While it is unquestionably true that some stages of growing up are marked by more difficult behaviour than others, there is no stage when the characteristic behaviour is not “problem behaviour”. Many of these difficult, unsocial, and often hard to understand forms of behaviour which appear at different times during the growing up years will gradually wane and disappear, only to be replaced by other forms of behaviour as difficult to understand and live with as the ones that have just been outgrown.


Great. Isn’t that just wonderful.

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The time has come for us to be strong again, I said to myself. She nodded, and we held each other close.