Cultural Psychology in Therapy: How Family Life Shapes Who We Become

We share the same basic biology. Doesn't that mean we should all interpret and feel about the world in roughly the same way? It's a reasonable assumption, and it also isn't quite true. Two people can have remarkably similar brains and still grow into completely different relationships with family, obligation, independence and their own sense of wellbeing. What often makes the difference isn't where someone is from. It's the actual shape of the life they grew up inside.