“The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.” PeopleGivingRealityEnergyAbilityDealsCreativeEmotionalAnxietyCapacityDirectSatisfactionRelateMaturityTensionConsistentMutualRelativeReceivingSymptomsHostileOutletsCriteriaConstructiveCapacity To LoveHelpfulnessEmotional Maturity Author:William C. Menninger
“Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond our families to the community, to the state, to the nation, and to this shrinking little world.” PeopleWorldLittlesStatesCareNationsCommunityCapacityIncreaseMaturityOur FamilyShrinkingCapacity To Love Author:William C. Menninger
“In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.” GivingPersonsStatesRealityFormFearTermAcceptingCreativeGreaterAnxietyFindingsCapacityProfitSatisfactionAbsenceLoyaltyPsychologicalPermanentMaturityTensionSatisfyingReceivingSerenityContributingPseudoUnchangeable Author:William C. Menninger
