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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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.
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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Burden of proof lies with you. Can you show me genomic evidence that specific variants predispose people to childhood trauma?
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Way to totally miss the point.
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The issue is whether the "shared family environment" component means what some behavioral geneticists assert that it means.
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For example, siblings abused and both siblings affected but not affected the same way -- this counts as non-shared environment, not shared environment.
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There aren’t many studies on things that no ethics board would ever possibly sign off on studying, it’s true. Must mean those things have no impact. Unless you have access to the Identical Strangers research?
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Have you read any of Alice Miller’s books on childhood experience? I don’t deny genetics on one’s personalities, performance etc but denying environmental is totally crazy. More how does a therapist work if they don’t want to hear your past/experience?
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dude, even the big Bouchard review gives a bit of it for interests
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That’s old my man. Very old.
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Kong et al. 2018 science
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Which show the non-transmitted allele (i.e. the genes in you parents, but not in you) effect your educational outcomes. This means your parents unique genetic predispositions shape your outcome, not only trough your genes.
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