It’s behind you
As a psychodynamically trained psychotherapist, Philippa Perry’s base belief is that, as a subheading in the opening chapter of her book says, “The past comes back to bite us (and our children)”. Our attitudes to parenting are formed by our own childhoods, in that we tend to either subconsciously replicate that parenting or resist it and want to use a different style.
Seeing what dysfunctional
