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Parenting (and Life) Manifestoes for the 21st Century By John Breeding ISBN: 9781847471147 Published: 2007 Pages: 80 Key Themes: anti-psychiatry, empowerment, mental health services, North American author Description This book addresses the vulnerability of human life. It looks at how early life experiences can affect people psychologically. It is extremely informative. About the Author Prof. John Breeding is a father of two from Texas, USA, he was born in 1952. He is a psychology professor who became aware of the problem of modern psychiatry whilst working in mental health services. He always intended to become a Catholic priest until his teens, this would account for the 'spiritual' aspect of his thinking. He is extremely active in campaigning on the negative effects that prescribed medication can have on youngsters in the US. Book Extract A Second Manifesto for the 21st Century A full three decades ago, I learned something in my class on infant psychology at a major university. The professor was great-ardent and intelligent, trained at the University of Minnesota Child Development Center, one of the most prestigious university spots in the academic world of child development. He was actively involved in researching infant life and experience. I learned that newborns could not focus their eyes for a while after birth, a couple of days more or less. I accepted this along with all kinds of other valuable information in my quest to understand life, my life in particular. That was 1974. Twelve years later, on August 31, 1986, I learned that my newborn son was intensely focused immediately upon entry from his mother's womb into the world of air-eyes wide open, intense, and appearing angry after a very difficult struggle to get his big head through mother's cervix. I, too, was wide open after one of the most awesome peak experiences of my life. Eighteen ye