Differential Psychology Quote du Jour

"I have studied young artists who at age 20 all described their early lives as harmonious and happy. Then at age 40, when we interviewed them again, those who had been fairly successful still said in retrospect that they had had a harmonious home life, but those who had gone through a hard time and had become alcoholics or drug addicts all blamed their parents."

M.CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, 1993, in Ciba Foundation Symposium 178, The Origins and Development of High Ability. Chichester : Wiley-Interscience.