Quotes from Selma H. Fraiberg

The highest order of mental health must include the freedom of a man to employ his intelligence for the solution of human problems, his own and those of his society.

the companion lion who overcomes all enemies, the kings and queens who command power over life, give us imaginative reconstructions of the small child's world. We

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely. So