“Like a real child, [your unconscious inner child] is pleasure-oriented, entirely self-involved, dependent, irresponsible, charming, often illogical and irrational, but unlike a real child, perpetually angry.  It is also powerful, although it sees itself as weak and inferior–“after all, I’m only a child.”  It is in constant conflict with the parent–a struggle of major importance to the mindbody process.”

–john E. Sarno, M.D., from The Mindbody Prescription;  Healing the Body, Healing the Pain