Psychosexual Equations

Complete and Incomplete

Dr Keith Le Page

JACKETED HB 224 PP 230 x 168 COL ILLUS ISBN 9781862547544 $49.95 Wakefield Press September 2007

The greatest responsibility and the greatest privilege of parents is to nurture children in love and kindness, understanding and empathy, to cherish and support, to protect and encourage, allowing them to climb yet saving them from falling; and to love the child unreservedly.

The alternative is unconscionable: that children’s developing personalities are malformed and damaged to grow into unhappiness for themselves, anxiety to those close to them and vexation to the community. So be ever aware of the binary imperative contained in responsibility and privilege; our children are our future selves and their completeness rests with us.

Dr Keith Le Page graduated in Medicine from the University of Adelaide and has practiced Family and General Psychiatry since 1953. He has post-graduate qualifications from some of the world’s most respected medical institutions, has co-authored numerous scientific papers, and in 1994 he founded CINTRA, a primary preventive infant mental health program.