The Invisible Inheritance

Do you feel alone even when surrounded by family? Do you sense that your life has been organized around someone else's moods, approval, or emotional fragility? In The Invisible Inheritance, neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Gregory Bicaj explains why so many capable, caring adults carry wounds they cannot name — and offers a clear, compassionate path toward understanding and recovery. Drawing on two decades of laboratory research and clinical practice, Bicaj shows how emotionally immature parenting leaves a hidden legacy: survival roles we adopt as children, fantasies we build to endure emotional absence, and nervous-system patterns that continue firing long after we leave home.