MISCELLANY
EndNotes
“Why can't you play with me?!”
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“If a child is to
keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at
least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy,
excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”
— RACHEL CARSON
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To lead his own life ...
Writing of the psychotherapist’s task, Anhony Storr
says: ‘His basic aim is to help his patient lead his own life more
completely, without trying to order that life for him or to convert the
patient to his own frame of reference.’ For brevity we can call
this the aim of respecting and allowing self-determination. Obviously
this is more feasible with adult patients than with dependent children:
the notion that one can, or should, permit children complete
selfdetermination is quite unreal and false. The therapist intervenes in
the patient's life and the residential unit intervenes even more so. But
essentially the intervention of parents and residential units should be
directed to making real understandable choices available to the child at
a level at which he can genuinely choose, thus encouraging his capacity
‘to lead his own life more completely’.
— CHRISTOPHER BEEDEL
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“What is necessary to change a person
is to change his awareness of himself.”
— ABRAHAM MASLOW
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“Your supervisor will think far more of your log report
of this interview if you use a tasteful and sober 12-point
traditional font instead of that jazzy comic font!”
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having
the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
— DOUGLAS ADAMS
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