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The Baby has no skies
But mother's eyes,
Nor any God above,
But mother's love.
His angel seems the father's face,
But he the mother's full of grace;
And yet the heavenly kingdom is
Of such as this.
--Fr. John Bannister Tabb - quoted in Frank Lake's Clinical Psychology, p. 602

"The stress of our lives and tension which emerges has much more relationship to our early histories than to our daily lives in the present. . . Even when one cries for a parent at a funeral, the agonizing quality of the grief derives from infancy, when love-loss was totally unbearable, much less from the present."
-- E. Michael Holden, M.D. in The Journal of Primal Therapy

"For most people who come from dysfunctional families, the underlying goal of the psyche in choosing partners is often to address unfinished business left from childhood. We pick people like our parents and try to change them. . . If you accept that you can't change a cold person and give up trying, two things will happen. You will feel the grief for the loss of the father who was cold, and you will be free to choose a more loving partner."
-- Charlotte D. Kasl, Ph.D. in Women, Sex and Addiction.

"Our unique desire and ability to fall in love have to do with attachment experiences we all had very early in life, before we even knew what was happening to us. Attachment leaves such a lasting impression that much of our later life is spent trying to recreate its specific character, for better for worse. We are intensely attracted to those particular individuals who resonate with our earliest emotional map."
-- Robert W. Godwin, Ph.D. One Cosmos under God

"And when trauma occurs early, is severe and sustained, we have no data that suggest that there's any truth to the saying Time Heals All Wounds. Our society doesn't want to look at trauma's long-term effects. But it doesn't just go away."
- Wilfred Gallagher, The Torment of the Multiple Personality Disorder, Cosmopolitan Magazine, November, 1990

"It is not merely a question of inner conflict or of 'growing up.' 'Stop fussing over what your parents did to you!' as skeptics command patients in therapy. The scar consists of changed anatomy and chemistry within the brain."
--Dr. Peter D. Kramer in Listening To Prozac