A new edition of the groundbreaking - and potentially life-changing - book that shows how our earliest experiences make us what we are.
Clinical psychologist Oliver James demonstrates that who we are is largely the result of the way we were cared for during our first six years, rather than our genes and other environmental factors. The particular way we were treated in these earliest months and years explains why siblings can be so different. They may have been raised in the same family, but their mother and father related so differently to each of them that they might as well have had different parents. These early experiences affect our choices of friends and lovers, define our interests and professional drives and make us more or less prone to mental illness. James illustrates a vast body of startling new scientific evidence with detailed clinical case histories and those of prominent interviewees as diverse as Jeffrey Archer and Stephen Fry, along with revealing psycho-biographies of the likes of Woody Allen, Mia Farrow and Prince Charles.
They F*** You Up is a vital, challenging book offering compelling insights into how childhood experience provides the key to personality.
About Oliver James
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 and the best-selling 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 Home start.