Since 2022, Caroline Goldman has gone to war against the misinterpretation of positive education. Two years later, and after long months of media silence, the psychologist, daughter of Jean-Jacques Goldman, returns to the controversy.
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Caroline Goldman has not only made friends – in the world of child psychology as in the media – with her theory of “time-out” and her criticism of “positive and benevolent in the French way. “Positive education, as it is considered today, fantasizes reality and denies the child’s natural aggressiveness which calls for limits.” said the doctor in clinical psychopathology in the pages of Figaro last summer. Indeed, while this educational method invites parents to listen to the needs of their child and to encourage communication within their family relationships in order to promote the development of the autonomy of their offspring, collective thinking made positive education rhyme with unconditional freedom of the child, laxity and absence of limits.
“It’s finish“: Caroline Goldman will not return to a media crusade against positive education
Caroline Goldman recalled the importance of the word “education” in this educational methodology. An approach which earned him, last August, the publication, in the Obs, an incriminating column signed by psychiatrists like Hugo Baup where he was, for example, accused of having opinions on everything. Questioned by our colleagues from Parisian, the psychologist who consults in her office in Montrouge (in Hauts-de-Seine), confided to having finished with her media crusade in the face of positive education. “It’s over, she decides. I feel all child psychiatry allied with me. I have daily support from great professionals. Renowned psychoanalysts like Claude Halmos, Élisabeth Roudinesco and Caroline Eliacheff have publicly supported me. I feel like I’ve won the battle“, we can read in the pages of Parisian this Tuesday, May 14.
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The Goldman family: a happy tribe
Last February, Caroline Goldman confided in our colleagues at She about his private and family life. The eldest daughter of Jean-Jacques Goldman, born from the love of the artist and the psychologist Catherine Morlet, then spoke of the passion of the women in her family for children and psychology, but also of her relationship with her younger brother Michael Goldman, the director of star Academy. The forty-year-old, author of several books (including Go to your roomreleased in 2020, and For what ? Short psychology lessons for children aged 8 to 11which will be released this Wednesday, May 15), also confided that the tribe liked to meet in the Burgundian house of their father Jean-Jacques Goldman.
