Passages II

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Not to worry. Gould helpfully lists his "seven-step dialogue for mastering childhood demons." The last step: "Reach an integrated trustworthy view of reality unencumbered by the demonic past." That sort of advice reads more like Sheehy than Erikson. Gould's book shows that the adult-life research, despite its hankering for academic respectability, has lurched into the smog of self-help platitudes.