Description Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home.
Burger is professor of Psychology at Santa Clara University..
About the Author Jerry M.
No matter the reason, there are few experiences in one\'s life that can move a person as deeply and unpredictably as Returning home.
Still others return to former homes to work through psychological issues left over from sad or traumatic childhoods.
Others use that journey to strengthen emotional bonds between themselves and loved ones.
Many people use the trip to get in touch with the values and principles they were taught as children, often as a means to get their lives back on track.
Seeing the buildings, schools, parks, and playgrounds from their youth helps to establish the psychological and emotional link between the child in the black-and-white photographs and the person they are today.
Most people who visit a childhood home are motivated by a desire to connect with their past.
This book describes some of their experiences and the psychology behind the journeys.
Approximately one third of American adults over the age of thirty have visited a childhood home.
Rather, those Returning to their homes have a strong desire to visit the places that comprised the landscape of their childhood.
Often serving several important psychological needs, these trips are not intended as visits with people from their past.
Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them.
Description Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home
