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Fraternal Twins
Impulsive Personality Disorders
Impulsive Spectrum
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Recovered Memory Movement
Recovered Memory Therapies
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Unshared Environment
Product details
- ISBN 9780876309667
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Childhood has long been considered the major factor in determining adult life. It sets us on the path toward or away from happiness, shapes our personality, and is a major cause of mental disorders. Or is it?
Myths of Childhood strongly challenges these assumptions usually taken for granted in contemporary society and the mental health community. With a healthy dose of scepticism toward clinical impressions and using empirically-based research from areas including behavioral genetics and attachment, Dr. Paris builds a convincing case against the primacy of childhood in the development of adult personality and psychopathology. In its place, he offers an alternative model for development and shows how mental health professionals can apply this model to clinical pracitce.
Myths of Childhood represents an important addition to the ongoing debate between mental health professionals regarding nature vs. nurture. For supporters of either side , this book is a valuable resource for further exploration of this controversy.
Joel Paris, MD Professor of Psychiatry McCill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
