Much of this seems redundant to one's intuition, but you might be surprised at how much resistance there is in medicine to viewing childhood attachment experiences as formative for adult well-being, no doubt due in no small part to the erroneous notion that genes cause mental illness, along with the huge pharmaceutical bias.

More importantly, there are now a number of effective psychotherapies for the treatement of the personality disorders that emerge from early attachment trauma, and I'll post mention of those on a seperate thread under this forum.


http://tinyurl.com/qdyzk

http://tinyurl.com/pt5tm


And this study below is a good example of the resistance that still prevails in psychiatric medicine and research to the findings showing that environmental influence is passed on from generation to generation, a notion that only appears to violate Darwinian evolution, as apparently Darwin thought Lamarck correct regarding the acquition of acquired characteristics. IOW, genetic and environmental influences aren't simply additive, or impacting each other, but that there is also "nurture" functioning within "nature." Below this study is a link to Dr. Michael Meaney's research showing how environemntal influences are imprinted genetically and retained over several generations.


http://tinyurl.com/l9qvn


Here's the Meaney animal research showing environmental influence of maternal effects upon offspring leading either to dysfunction or increased resilience in future generations:

http://tinyurl.com/kz6hh


http://tinyurl.com/gu5ut

And here's research that acquired stress effects passed on epigenetically from parent to offspring can be reversed, and the pathways involved for the reversal that substantiate the claim of retained environmental influence upon the genome:

http://tinyurl.com/z9wvk

http://tinyurl.com/g96sj

http://tinyurl.com/j94kq


Meaney's research has been replicated so many times, and his findings reproduced, that one can only suspect the medical establishment's neglect as protecting its Human Genome Project bias and pharmaceutical profit margins.