What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is