You Are What You Remember: A Pathbreaking Guide to Understanding and Interpreting Your Childhood Memories

by Patrick Estrade

Tell me what you remember and I'll tell tell you who you are.” With this challenge, psychologist/psychotherapist Patrick Estrade introduces his groundbreaking method to analyze and interpret childhood memories. Such memories are widely recognized as keys that unlock our internal world, direct our actions, and determine the choices we make. But unlike dreams, memories are often neglected because we have no clearly established system for interpreting them. You Are What You Remember delineates Estrade's techniques for bringing our memories to consciousness and understanding how they inform our existence-all to the end of developing a fuller, more satisfying life and relationships.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

272 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2008

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not helpful enough to be self-help, not scientific enough to be psychology (I know, I know...). The author jumps to many conclusions about meanings in memories -- far too many, I feel. Reading the book felt like looking at the cover: it's very pretty, but everything's in a soft-focus, and nothing's properly defined. It wasn't bad, but it could've been great.

There's much better books out there on Adlerian psychology. And though I'm not a self-help fan, I'm sure there's better efforts in that vein as well.

[Tara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this book to be quite non-descript. Didnt find much tangible things I could take away from it.