Secondly, perpetually fascinated with the inner child, ' they never devised an exit strategy from their youth ' (p. 176).
It's not just a fun hook to hang a lyric from, it speaks to our inner child.
Intimate relationships are able to form due to a persons contact with their own inner child.
They come back and see the psychiatrist who realizes that they have overcome their difficulties and coped with their inner child.
Virtually every talk therapy approach acknowledges and ascribes some meaning to the inner child, even if they use a different label.
The inner child denotes a semi-independent entity subordinate to the waking conscious mind.
She continues to use this name as she believes it brings out her inner child.
The inner child is often characterized as a subpersonality.