“I have lived and worked in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area for almost four decades. During this period I have watched families and institutions recycle their problems for several generations, despite enormous efforts to be innovative. The opportunity to… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It may be in the ubiquitous phenomenon of terrorism that one can most easily see how universal emotional processes transcend the conventional categories of… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The more my perspective broadened, the more confirmed I became in my view that contemporary leadership dilemmas have less to do with the specificity… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“I will begin by describing the nature of an emotional regression and showing how in any society, no matter how advanced its state of… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“By the term regression I mean to convey something far more profound than a mere loss of progress. Societal regression is about the perversion… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The focus on “need fulfillment” that so often accompanies an emphasis on empathy leaves out the possibility that what another may really “need” (in… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Although the social science construction of reality tends to emphasize how families differ from one another, I began to see that knowledge of what… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It was then, after my presentations to thirty-two generals, that I first began to see how similar the approach to leadership problems was throughout… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Those five characteristics are: 1. Reactivity: the vicious cycle of intense reactions of each member to events and to one another. 2. Herding: a… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Chronic anxiety is systemic; it is deeper and more embracing than community nervousness. Rather than something that resides within the psyche of each one,… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“the extent we function and grow within the context of our own souls (a lifetime project) and abet the emergence of our own selves… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed immune systems… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
