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Section III: Brief Communications

The Human Quest for Truth

Pages 291-292
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The human yearning for truth, which might offer security and predictability in life, comes up against the basic uncertainties and unpredictabilities of living, whether as a child or as a grown-up. These uncertainties, and the search for satisfactory answers, are factors that attract many people to fundamentalist beliefs and lead them to subject themselves to leaders who carry the complementary belief, namely, that it is they who “hold the answers” and can control the circumstances of life.

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Fanita English

Fanita English, M.S., ACSW, is a certified Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (clinical and organizational) who founded a TA Institute in Philadelphia, developed existential pattern therapy, and taught in Europe for the last 15 years. She is the recipient of the 1978 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award and now lives at 2 Townsend Street, Apartment 813/N, San Francisco, California 94107, USA.