I Won't Be Your Copy: How to Live Based on Your Own Choices, Not Family Patterns

How often, looking at yourself in the mirror, do you anxiously recognize traits of your parents—your parents’ mistakes, fears, weaknesses? In the book “I Won’t Be Your Copy,” the well-known Italian psychologist and educator Daniele Novara explains how to stop unconsciously repeating parental scenarios and step out from under the shadow of parental beliefs. Drawing on real stories from his patients and more than 30 years of research experience, the author describes different types of family scripts—from overprotection to emotional unavailability, from authoritarian upbringing to permissiveness. A distinctive feature of Novara’s approach is the combination of deep analysis of personal experience and practical exercises that help the reader move out of the parental shadow.