Associate professor at the University of Saint Francis in Ft. Wayne, IN. Maintains a part-time practice in psychotherapy.
Rod Dreher’s idea of a “Benedict option” is ostensibly drawn from the closing paragraph of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s monumental book After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Writing in 1981, MacIntyre pointed to the efforts of Christians during the decline of the Roman Empire to salvage their moral tradition by constructing “local forms of community.”
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In a lecture in 1947, the very influential pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott shocked a lot of people by openly acknowledging that parents and children sometimes hate each other, and that this is not only perfectly normal, but a necessary achievement for healthy development among children.
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