“The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.” IfsMayChildrenWholeFeelingsFormSpeakLanguageMoralMoralityMadNotionSanityAccurateTokensBlackmail Book:Going sane Source: Going sane
“The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’” PeopleTryingChildrenSelfUseFeelingsDoubtIndependentCuresAppetiteExcessHopelessness Author:Adam Phillips
