Posted by 64Bowtie on March 29, 2004, at 22:30:10
Poet, I apologise for my tangent viewpoint. I'd like another chance to say it better.
Of course their is a 25 yearold link to that inner child. Eric Berne of transactional analysis, "Games People Play" and Regression pioneer, Jackie Schiff, "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" to name two sources of the inner child as an ego-state. Both were ground breaking therapists turned authur. Along with Werner Erhardt and EST, getting in touch with the purity and sensibility of our youth seemed the way out from turmoil.
What we have learned from the nuero folks and the Cognitive community is that there really is a reason that you can't make a binding contract with a child. They don't have all their juices yet. This begs the question: why is, "Finding your inner child such a good Idea?"
Also, the fallout from Regression Therapy is still ruining lives. Eric Berne died of a heart attack in 1970. Werner Erhardt's EST was bought by Scientology and turned into Landmark Education, working with executives to better their social fitness in the business world. Not much hipe left for seeking your inner child.
And, if you have read any of my posts you'll know that I am trying desparately to stay here without PBC's and still urge all to seek maturity, with the payoff that we get to use grown-up tools to help us with our lives, and stop missing our childhoods that were so chock full of pain and limitations of our youthful minds.
Rejoice in the options available in adulthood!
Rod
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