暗网吃瓜

Abstract

In The Soul鈥檚 Code (1996), Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman wrote about the acorn theory, the idea that each of us has a unique destiny that is announced in childhood and which we seek to fulfill over the course of a lifetime. Child development experts have offered many definitions of children and childhood, and, often, those definitions have led to a mode of treatment . Developmental milestones, expectations and 鈥渘orms鈥�, have framed childhood and what has been forced out is the coming to being of the child. This theoretical dissertation works within a hermeneutic framework to mine the literature for clinical attitudes about children and childhood. The researcher then proposes the theory that what is missing from child psychology, is a curiosity in the approach of the clinician. Very possibly from a place of anxiety about the unknown, child psychology has become a practice of diagnosis and management, or, in other words, a working from a fantasy of knowing. Through becoming comfortable with our own uncertainty as clinicians we can, this researcher believes, guide our young patients and even their families toward a place of organic unfolding, a discovering of the unique destiny as supposed by Hillman.