Adult life Quote by Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see…

— Anthony Storr

“Neglect transpires when the accountable adult fails to provide sufficiently for the needs of a child. It may be deliberate and conscious cruelty, or…

— Patricia Dsouza

When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security…

— Frank Chodorov

“When a child's needs fail to be met, undesirable behaviors may surface.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Being abandoned through the neglect of our developmental dependency needs is the major factor in becoming an adult child. We grow up; we look…

— John Bradshaw

“The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession. In terms…

— Guy Debord

“I’m referring to physical and emotional neglect so immeasurable that the child never bonds with another human being. It’s my belief that the bonding…

— Brenda Hill

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which…

— Maria Montessori

“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those…

— C.S. Lewis

“What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily. Not just…

— Carol S. Dweck

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

— Ari Graynor

“If the mere nonexistence of attention and mental engagement is taken to be "nonattention" and "mental nonengagement," it is to be analyzed in what…

— Karl Brunnholzl