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silences can mean many things and can be important in different ways to different people. silence may not mean they don’t want to talk - it may be its own form of communication.

sometimes it is not important to give one a label or pathologise them; instead, it may be more important to to recognise their individual beliefs, behaviour and experience as a unique person and not to classify them.

it explores the use of dream analysis and how it can genuinely inform our feelings in emotional situations (in as non a cliche way as possible)

‘when we envy our children we deceive ourselves - we think too little of them and too well of ourselves’

everyone has paranoid fantasies. it is often theorised they allow us to rid ourselves of anger or sexual feelings. it mainly seems that they are a response to the feeling that we are being treated with indifference.

discusses the relevance of praising our children, differing parental attitudes to it and covering a psychoanalytical perspective on attachment.