INDEX OF QUOTES
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Underlying our actions is the belief that intervention is likely to ameliorate, or at least contain, the unacceptable condition (the problem) which has provoked it. This is more frequently implicit than explicit. However, it can be regarded as the most fundamental ‘article of faith’ of the healer. The creed is usually unvoiced but, if it were, it would be something like: ‘Every problem can be resolved, or at least its impact made tolerable, by the healing process; no child, however serious his problem, is untreatable; our failure to find effective treatments is indicative of the quality of our efforts so far, rather than of the child’s condition, so let us try more and better; our next effort may well bear fruit; we cannot and must not give up.’ |
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