Clinical Integration.

Abstract

Behavior patterns are not catastrophic, sudden, unrelated, induced by parental ambition. They are adumbrations, expectations, culminations, dropped from the fingers of yesterday. The child grows up slowly, consistently, quietly. Nature, in its steady stretch toward maturation, is not pushed from without so much as pulled from within. Nature does not see the goal with opera glasses and then push up hill to reach it. Nature is fertile in pauses, creative in silences, and would not attempt to change a demure violet into a stately lily just to be in the mode. -Beatrice Chandler Gesell.