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Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943 --- Please send HN questions to hn@ycombinator.com.

user:dang created:August 18, 2007 karma:42526 about:"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be…

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