But do therapists exist to treat "psychological traits"? For instance if you went to a therapist over a marriage problem, it has nothing to do (that I can see) with heritability of traits.
How to choose a therapist: Ask if they accept the thousands of behavior genetics studies showing that every psychological trait is heritable, and that almost none are significantly influenced by shared family environment ('childhood experience'). If they don't, keep looking.
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Divorce is moderately heritable.
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I've focused on both genomics for my PhD, and postdoctoral neuroimaging work focusing on emotional processing in the brain. The notion that childhood experience doesn't apply here is ludicrous. The best mental health professionals realize that genes and environment matter.
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Show me a large-scale genetically informative study that finds a substantial effect of shared family environment on an adult psychological trait.
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So epigenetics doesn’t exist to you? Or you have a modified view of it?
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Epigenetics is mostly an overhyped buzzword that doesn't explain even a fraction of the variance in traits.
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I believe in 'protean behavior', which is even better: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58e2a71bf7e0ab3ba886cea3/t/58ebd885b3db2b7497989384/1491851402811/1997+protean+primates.pdf …
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