Myths of Childhood [Hardcover]

Joel Paris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 17, 2000

With a healthy dose of scepticism toward clinical impressions and using empirically-based research from areas including behavioral genetics and attachment, Dr. Paris builds a convincing case against the primacy of childhood in the development of adult personality and psychopathology. In its place, he offers an alternative model for development and shows how mental health professionals can apply this model to clinical practice. Myths of Childhood represents an important addition to the ongoing debate between mental health professionals regarding nature vs. nurture.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Favoring genetic factors and non-familial environmental factors over early experiences as influences on personality, this book discusses research indicating the importance of genetic predispositions in the causation of mental disorders and describes the need to place greater value on the quality of the relationship between patient and therapist than on the link between the past and the present as a curative factor."
-"Resources in Education
"Joel Paris has written--again--another lucid, synthetic, and provocative book that challenges fundamental assumptions that have dominated our field in the last century. I suspect the author's mission would be accomplised if he riles unswerving practitioners of dogma and stimulates students to quetion traditional concepts and shibboleths. This masterful book deserves to be read by both these groups and would serve as a marvelous catalyst for discussion and reflection.."
-"Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, February, 2003

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087630966X
• ISBN-13: 978-0876309667
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,440,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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