“The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.” ChildrenStatesNaturalEmotionEmotionalOppositesHotReactionsImpulseCharacteristicsContrastTeensPsychicsUnstableInstabilityFluctuationEmotionally Unstable Author:G. Stanley Hall
“Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.” HumansSoulStruggleWorstPossessionImpulseAdolescenceHuman Soul Book:Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931) Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)