When working with young children, the language of therapy should be the language of action. I often have children stand near each other to see who is taller, who smiles wider, and so on, to help them feel as participants. Salvador Minuchin, Mastering Family Therapy . When power becomes a focus in itself, energy is channeled into weaponry, influence into control, investment into greed and healing into self-aggrandizement.
Theory is a useful servant but a bad master.
Liable to produce orthodox defenders of every variety of the faith. We ought always to set light to theory and be on the look-out for ways of improving it in the light of therapeutic practice. It is therapeutic practice that is the real heart of the matter. Harry Guntrip, Object Relations, Psychopathology and the Clinical Situation. To find a good parent at the start is the basis of psychic health.