Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative: Historic. Goldstein, Goldstein,**

Name: Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative: Historic. Goldstein, Goldstein,**
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Challenging the Therapeutic NarrativeHistorical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior\nAuthor(s): Robert G. Goldstein\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032398747, 978-1032398747\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experiencean assumption that still widely dominates folk psychology as well as the perspective of many mental health practitioners. This tendency continues despite powerful evidence from the field of behavioral genetics that genetic endowment dwarfs other discrete influences on development and psychopathology when extrinsic conditions are not extreme. \n\nAn interdisciplinary collection, the book uses historical, cultural and clinical perspectives to challenge the longstanding notion of identity as the product of a life-narrative. Although the nativist-empiricist debate has been revivified by.