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It is the family and the community that generally offer the confirmation that each individual must have in order to become fully human. When the family and community are no longer a stable force within the society, the much-needed confirmation may be lacking and even within the family one may feel abandoned and lonely. When one is given very little confirmation, there are signs of this deprivation at every stage of one’s life. This lack of confirmation often drives one to attempt to will what cannot be willed. This is part of the web of desperation that actually prevents the attainment of confirmation and prevents the dialogue of caring and loving from taking place.
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Leslie H. Farber, The Ways of The Will: Essays Toward a Psychology and Psychopathology of the Will (New York: Basic Books, 1966), p. 9.
Leslie H. Farber, Lying, Despair, Jealousy, Envy, Sex, Suicide, Drugs, and the Good Life (New York: Basic Books, 1976), p. 6.
Ibid., pp. 6–7.
Ibid., pp. 32–33.
Barbara Brown, New Mind, New Body Bio-feedback: New Directions for the Mind (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), p. 1.
Ibid., p. 353.
Leslie H. Farber, “Merchandising Depression,” Psychology Today (April, 1979), pp. 63–64.
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Friedman, A.M. (1992). Stress, Willfulness, and the Decline of the Healing Dialogue. In: Treating Chronic Pain. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5968-3_6
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