>I regret that the human emotional system seems to be designed so that high
>levels of stress are needed to really grow up.
Well you better get that level of stress just right: the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting suggests that childhood abuse (emotional not physical) may lead to permenant brain damage:
http://biomednet.com/biomednews/conf/sfn98/Monday/story_2.html
ciao, patrick
Patrick Wilken http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~patrickw/ Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness Secretary: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/