Why It Really Is All About Your Childhood

The founding principle of modern psychotherapy – that it is all to do with one’s childhood – can sound especially irritating. Why should we be forever tied to things that happened infinitely long ago?
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“In certain moods, the founding principle of modern psychotherapy — that it is all to do with one’s childhood — can sound especially irritating. Why should we be forever tied to things that happened infinitely long ago? One hardly ever sees one’s mother now and dad might have died twenty years ago. And anyway, aren’t genetics more important?”

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