To capture a robust sense of moral purpose, contemporary notions about self - fulfillment must be discarded along with romantic notions about inherent goodness. (religion-online.org)
We want to respond to the child's authentic self, that is buried within the child, underneath the child's symptomatic psychopathology, to reawaken the authenticity of the child through our «harmonic resonance» with it, through our fundamental confidence in the child's inherent goodness of character. (drcraigchildressblog.com)