The Quiet Profession

Abstract

The question is, can one get through the miasma of platitudes that oozes through the first part of the 143 pages of text, even after one is reconciled to the author's psychodynamic viewpoint. One finds such statements as: "The awesome privilege and the enormous burden of parenting the young come to fruition in the moment when they set forth carrying our visions of the truth and our dreams into posterity