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Getting Past Your Past: Why your adverse childhood experiences didn’t actually ruin your life
This is an excerpt from what will eventually be my (next) book after Dr. Lisle and I finish ours. The neo-Freudian argument that individuals are essentially “blank slates,” and that we learn who we are from our parents and childhood environments, is flat-out archaic and incorrect. That is not my opinion. That is the well-evidenced conclusion of six decades of longitudinal identical twin studies — and not a handful of twin pairs, or even a few thousand of them, but fifteen million pairs of twins. Monozygotic (identical) twin studies are by far the most powerful evidence we have against the “blank slate”…