Stephen A. Mitchell Quote

One of the most profound and universal realizations of later childhood, a realization that probably is never totally integrated, is the discovery that one's parents are not necessarily representative of the human species, that one has grown up in an idiosyncratically structured family with its own peculiarities and dramas.


Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 275


One of the most profound and universal realizations of later childhood, a realization that probably is never totally integrated, is the discovery...

One of the most profound and universal realizations of later childhood, a realization that probably is never totally integrated, is the discovery...

One of the most profound and universal realizations of later childhood, a realization that probably is never totally integrated, is the discovery...

One of the most profound and universal realizations of later childhood, a realization that probably is never totally integrated, is the discovery...