When a certain type of person reaches middle age without having achieved the level of professional recognition or personal happiness they feel they deserve, they’re apt to take a page from sociologists who study poverty and start searching for root causes, the source of what went wrong. These dissatisfied adults turn to their therapist: Was it their parents? Something else in their upbringing? All options are on the table—except, perhaps, those that locate the blame within.
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