Actual psychology: personality comes mostly from genes plus noise. Psych-adjacent fields (life coaching, self-help, New Age therapies): personality comes from unresolved childhood trauma & maladaptive parenting. The persistence of Freudianism never ceases to astound me.
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The Kaiser study of ACEs shows a pretty strong dose-response relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences with later life negative health outcomes. Some of it is genes, but it's pretty f'n crazy to assume the events have no impact. Oh well, not easy to think both/and I guess.
I thought I was talking about personality traits, not health outcomes. Thanks for correcting me.
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Just to clarify, the health outcomes include many mental health outcomes. Depression, anxiety, suicide attempts - plus behavioral issues (sexual promiscuity, smoking, etc.). It doesn't turns extroverts into introverts, but lots of touch points w/ personality writ large.
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You were not particularly clear - not when you question the whole edifice that parents have any impact whatsoever and use that to disparate all of psychodynamic or attachment informed therapy. You could be more careful.
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For the umpteenth time, therapy practiced well is quite a bit more complex than it is purported to be. It's tiring having to defend it from people such as yourself who use it as a whipping boy of convenience. Trying reading The Gift of Therapy by Yalom. It's great/complex.
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