A controversial and groundbreaking take on the nature-nuture debate
Oliver James trained and practised as a child clinical psychologist and, since 1987, has worked as a writer, journalist and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture, the bestselling They F*** You Up and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4. He is a trustee of two children's charities- the National Family and Parenting Institute and Homestart.
"Radical but full of hope ... we really can choose our mental
health and that of our children"
*Steve Biddulph, bestselling author of Raising Boys*
"the nation's shrink"
*The Times*
"James is charting the new frontiers in psychology"
*Guardian*
"our foremost chronicler of what ails us"
*Will Self*
"Oliver James has done it again – a brilliant, brave and peppery
defence of the primary role of nurture over nature in matters of
the mind. This gloriously readable book combines fascinating cases
from his practice as a therapist with a trenchant analysis of the
scientific evidence about how much we have neglected such factors
as early abuse in the origins of mental illness later in life."
*Professor Ian Robertson, Director of Trinity College Institute of
Neuroscience, Dublin University*
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