Becoming the Parents/Mentors/Elders
We Wish We Had Had
From the introduction:
"We begin with the childhood foundations of adult relationships. The difficulty of this material will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me well or has heard me talk on the subject before, but it can be disturbing to anyone not familiar with psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, or the various issues relating to the development of emotional abilities and capacities. I am in the habit of trying to speak the truth, however, even if it is a bit painful to my audience, and that is what I will be doing here.
We can start this painful process with the phrase “prisoner of childhood” borrowed from the original title of a classic work by Alice Miller later given the far less accurate title The Drama of the Gifted Child. We are all of us, to a person, prisoners of childhood, but why is that?"
