Leon Seltzer

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The "I Feel Like a Child" Syndrome

If our various child parts are not fully integrated into our adult self, we're likely at times to feel like a child inside an adult's body. We won't be able to feel truly grown up because our basic sense of self hasn't sufficiently evolved into the actual adult we've become. Our chronological age, our body, our mind may all say "adult" . . . but our psyche nonetheless continues to say "child."nnTo put it more concretely, when present-day circumstances tap into old, unresolved

June 5, 2009