“I don’t mean to cause you undue concern,” the pediatric therapist says, “but it seems he lacks the concrete liberty which comprises the general power of putting oneself into a situation.”x

It can’t be said that the mother is shocked. “Be that as it may, how can we be certain he’s not better for it?” she inquires.

Whatever the therapist’s answer, it is clear to mother and child both that the therapist hasn’t considered the limits of using silence or words to construe the mind of an other.

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