Seemingly contradictory to the logical studies of happiness that had been going on for several years, Jean Piaget sought to bridge these two perspectives. In a remarkable series of experiments in his earliest years of clinical work, Piaget demonstrated that a child's awareness, anxiety, and happiness were distinctly interconnected. With the encouragement of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, Piaget believed that children had to learn the things that adults did not want to learn: the critical consciousness of suffering, the agony of frustration, the anxiety of being uncertain. Piaget distinguishe