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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Burden of proof lies with you. Can you show me genomic evidence that specific variants predispose people to childhood trauma?
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You're right to allude to therapists in general not acknowledging the "nature" side of the equation close to enough, but dude - there's no way a therapist can get through to a patient by using genomic language. You're not arguing gene expression is set from birth, right?
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No, he’s arguing that shared family environment has not been shown by behavior genetics studies to significantly affect many measurable psychological variables in adulthood. Non-shared, individual, and random components environment certainly can and do.
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Way to not answer the question
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