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Ferber depicts the ritual as the child's natural progress toward nocturnal self-reliance.
Marcus Garvey called for black self-reliance, and Alexander Bustamante formed the Industrial Trade Union and later the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
In an article published in 1975, José Armas describes machismo as a mode of behavior necessary for an individual to live life with integrity, self-reliance, and dignity.
With modern America's emphasis on independence and individualism, you might say that the early separation from parents is sending a forceful message to their children that they are going to have to learn that American virtue of self-reliance.
And while I do believe that clinicians can help in this regard by sharing their knowledge openly and by encouraging patient self-reliance, it now seems quite clear that growing numbers of patients are perfectly capable of empowering themselves, with or without their clinician's blessing.