One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we…

- Terri E Apter

Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent, new developmen…

- Terri E Apter

This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They reject thenotion of being love…

- Terri E Apter

Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, se…

- Terri E Apter

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflic…

- Terri E Apter

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,…

- Terri E Apter

We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of…

- Terri E Apter

Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged then it…

- Terri E Apter

The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother without and the mothe…

- Terri E Apter