ABSTRACT
Halpern has listed a number of truisms. Informal writing or speaking about love between persons may often achieve eloquence, but it inspires more than it teaches. Professionals speak a special language to identify problems that we come upon in the human condition. If Howard Halpern spoke about the narcissism of childhood that often perseverates into adulthood, one would then understand him to say that the language of the narcissist often misleads people. It is as if to speak in truisms is to achieve a kind of philosophic tone that raises our level of understanding onto higher peaks. Sad enough that glib media psychologists spout the wildest generalizations over the air waves, intending to impress their listeners with capsules of wisdom. And they are often intriguing. But alas their capsuled wisdoms too often is like the legendary Chinese dinner that leaves you hungry an hour later.
