Emotional development Quotes

"The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety." "People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature." "The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it" "At least embarrassment is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners."