They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life
Oliver James
Language: English
Pages: 416
ISBN: 1569243239
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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with a belt if they showed any resistance. Michael was picked out by his father for special attention, required to achieve the highest standards and to practise the most. This is probably the reason he was also the most talented. Although it is often assumed that musical ability is inherited, there is abundant evidence that this is not the case. It seems that all of us are born with perfect pitch, the capacity to match notes perfectly. Highly musical children were sung to more as infants (and in
course, neglect is not the only determinant of weak sexual conscience. Sexual abuse or inappropriate sexual interest from parent to child also have a profound impact. In summary, the host of studies show that the amount of harm caused by sexual abuse is greater the earlier it begins; the longer it goes on; the more it entails penetrative sexual acts; and the more that force, or the threat of it, are employed. It is also more damaging if the perpetrator is our biological parent rather than a
Our relationships are prone to highs and lows, to jealousy, conflict and dissatisfaction. We are liable to mother our partners, protecting, feeding, sympathising, smothering. We are looking for unqualified closeness, keen to move in with new partners and to share their life as soon as possible. We seek total commitment and constant affection. We are liable to idealize partners, making it all the more disappointing when the lover turns out to be less than perfect. We are very prone to falling in
uncovered in reality, but the reader has paid him money by buying the book that catalogues them. One variant of the impostor type earns their living through criminal deception. This is the Machiavellian, ‘false self’ type – the psychopathic conman who assumes identities in order, for instance, to sell old ladies false insurance policies. Psychopaths are impulsive, greedy for sensation, prone to criminality and breaking norms of decent behaviour, and have a weak conscience. If we are psychopathic
