Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around severalmothers, all… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently. — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything. — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing. — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
“At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
