MYTH 17
It’s all your parents’ fault
It takes a stoic and selfless parent these days to receive the news that their offspring is about to enter therapy without some trepidation. However pleased and relieved they might feel that their child is demonstrating commitment to overcoming their difficulties, part of every parent dreads the inevitable dissection of their children’s upbringing. Parents know full well that they are more than likely to end up in the frame as the chief culprit and author of their child’s problems and failings, however old they may be. If there is one great myth to rule them all in popular psychology it is this: that the kind of adult you become is almost exclusively determined by what happened to you when you were younger, ...
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