ilds defenses we use to protect ourselves. Viscott analyzes a number of losses we may feel, fears we may have, and ways in which we trust or distrust. Viscott shows how the child learns fears, learns trust and distrust, learns ways of maintaining control and the fear of losing control. The child learns a number of important elements for his or her life, from the need for control to the need for a sense of esteem. Risk in each of these stages may endanger the stable characteristics the child wants to achieve and is being taught to achieve. Risk becomes perceived as something that endangers the values and characteristics we prize and thus as something to be avoided.
Yet, risk is part of life, though we may not recognize risk as risk. We may think of risk in broader terms, but if we examine our everyday actions we find numerous instances of
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