So far, I’ve found this book raises some genuine areas of concern, but the author places too much emphasis on societal and parenting failures as creating permanent trauma with deep scars than on the remarkable ability of the individual to adapt to such circumstances and still develop into a healthy adult. Not all ills can be explained by the parents’ behavior or by societal failure to nurture parents or children. A blade of grass can thrive in a rocky, barren place under the right circumstances. I’m not yet seeing any positive prescriptions - maybe these will come later in the book?

I’ve also noticed some dubious anthropological commentary - for example, comparing and equating modern “hunter-gatherer “ societies (e.g. the Kalahari “bush-men”) with those of 20,000 years ago, as if these communities are living fossils of the ancient ones. This is a highly neocolonial attitude. And idealizing these supposedly static societies as more “in tune with nature” than our modern ones is also anthropological rubbish.