Growing up in a Greek family

Matthew Jehoshaphat

This book is the recording, with small corrections and additions, of four lectures organized in Armos, entitled Growing up in the family. The participation of the audience was large and lively, with many questions, which are recorded in the book along with the answers of the speaker. It is well known and accepted today that childhood determines to a great extent the whole development of the personality and the course of life of each individual. The texts describe the stages of the child's psychosexual development, from conception, the embryonic period and the next stages, until the first completion of the personality around 5-6 years. "The child is the father of the adult," Freud said, meaning that the child's experiences determine their personality as an adult. Of course, inheritance also plays a role, but we can not do anything substantial about it yet. But we know today, from Psychoanalysis and other related sciences, the huge, crucial role of parents - and the book focuses on just that role. What is right, what is wrong with parental behavior. How this behavior is determined by their own childhood. There are many books for children, many good and many superficial or wrong. The peculiarity of this book is the psychoanalytic approach in combination with the latest data of the Neurosciences, in order to offer simply and understandably to the general educated public the modern correct scientific views for the upbringing of children.