Tyler Hebert

“It has been fashionable in some psychiatric and lay circles to blame the mother for whatever goes wrong in development. [...]

If blame must be assessed it should be placed on the human condition which requires such prolonged dependence on one individual for development to take place. This makes the child extraordinarily vulnerable to the idiosyncrasies of that person (the mother). On the other hand, the prolonged dependence on this relationship also provides the potential for the richness of the human personality.

It is a mistake, in my judgment, in psychotherapy to encourage or side with the patient's hostility to the mother. The patient has to become aware of and express it in therapy in order to grow but whatever the source of this hostility is in the past -- be it an actual memory or a fantasy to rationalize a feeling state -- the problem is now the patient's responsibility and he must work it out.”
― James F. Masterson, Psychotherapy Of The Borderline Adult: A Developmental Approach

“Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.”
― Tyler J. Hebert

“Redefined soul anew, bow now with pride. Reborn from the darkness, a man now wise.”
― Tyler J. Hebert

“The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before.”
― Tyler J. Hebert