63rd Annual Conference

Mitchell Hochberg Memorial Public Education Event

The Family Morality and Politics: Strict and Nurturant Parents

Two fundamentally opposed family models form the basis of fundamentally opposed moral and political systems.  Many of the problems within our society are reflections of these issues that arise in families.  It is important for therapists to understand precisely what these effects are, and the ways these models sometimes coexist within a single person.

Dr. Lakoff is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley.  He previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan and is currently on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute and is co-director with Jerome Feldman of the Neural Theory of Language Project at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.  Dr. Lakoff has published a multitude of articles in major scholarly journals and edited volumes.  He is the author of the influential book,  Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind, and  most recently, Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values, Frame the Debate..