Hi.<br/>May I ommit 'would' in:<br/>" This conceptualization <u>would</u> seem to imply that, absent any external factors, an individual would develop to some positive outcome"<br/><a href="http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=2&page=558&journalID=21"><a href='http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=2&page=558&journalID=21' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=2&page=558&journalID=21</a> </a>