Active Quote by Melanie Klein

“The repeated attempts that have been made to improve humanity - in particular to make it more peacable - have failed, because nobody has…

— Melanie Klein

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent…

— Maria Montessori

“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn…

— Karl A. Menninger

Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any…

— Sandra Scarr

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

— Melanie Klein

“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and…

— Ryū Murakami

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

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot…

— Margaret Deland

Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones -…

— Sigmund Freud

“We have counseled many couples that started their journey in parenting with high hopes and the best intentions to love and nurture their newborns,…

— Gary Ezzo

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner