Download Author: Robson, Kenneth S. MD

13 eBooks available.

Of Human Bondage

There is a critical time period for human infants to connect to their caregivers. When this time passes without the process of attachment running its expectable course, impairments in trust, friendship and empathy result. Children suffering such “detachment” are everywhere and nowhere, unable to live well, love well, die well, or be alone. (11 pp.)

Male and Female Created He Them

The developmental line of gender and sexuality is marked by four nodal points along its sometimes treacherous traverse from birth to adolescence—biological gender; core gender identity (the inner, subjective perception of being male or female, the contours of which are definitively shaped by three years of age); sex role (the culture’s stereotypical patterns and characteristics of boy/girl, man/woman behavior); and, finally, sexual orientation (preference for a male or female sexual partner). (10 pp.)

Unholy Love

Like other developmental phenomena, emerging sexuality is determined by genetic influences, temperament, parent-infant interaction and social mores. At one end of that curve lie emotional constriction and inhibition of eroticism; at the other extreme, one finds incest and/or sexual abuse. (13 pp.)