Herb- You got my interest up. Being a daughter of a child psychiatrist I have to read "Children of Psychiartists". I can't detect that my dad's specialty affected us in any adverse way- though all of our cats were named things like Adler, Jung, and Sigmund except for Bernie who was named after the patient that gave him to us. Regards- Kim Burlingham, MD rural peds. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Ruhs" <> Cc: <> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 1:53 PM Subject: Re: pediatricians' children > A very enjoyable post Kim. Very poignant musings. Guilt is the most > pernicious ingredient to thought. Bruno Bettelheim wrote a wonderful > book called "The Good Enough Parent." You don't have to read the book > to be inspired by the title. Fortunately, the vast majority of parents > are "good enough," a few are less than good enough, and a few (the most > worrysome group to me) are "too good." Another wonderful book that > speaks to the issues raised is "The Children of Psychiatrist." > Acceptance is a much more powerful source of good than is censure. > Judge not is a difficult precept, but just as nescessary now as it was a > couple of thousand years ago. The converse of this precept is also > true, be not judged. If I lead my life as an effort to avoid the harsh > judgements of prigish fools then who am I? > herb > herb > > > \\\\\ > @ O O > \ > \__/ > //// > group.