Public Citizen Larry Barnett, July 9, 2020, Sonoma Sun.
The doorbell rings and outside the door is a well-dressed young white man. How do you feel? Or, outside the door is a well-dressed young black man. Do you feel differently? Or, in either case, the young men are poorly dressed. How does that affect your feelings? Or, it’s a policeman dressed in uniform at your door; what then?
The emotional experiences of fear and safety begin in infancy. How we resolve such feelings as infants resides at the center of ideas about human psychological development, such as attachment theory, about how and why we grow up to become the sorts of people we are.
Comments (0)