‘I came out of a challenging home’: Richard Hogan on family dysfunction

Psychotherapist and Irish Examiner columnist Richard Hogan’s new book will give you the tools to recognise negative patterns from childhood – and avoid them when it comes to your own family. In this extract he writes about the trauma he experienced – and how he overcame it

Richard Hogan and his family.

I am the clinical director of Therapy Institute, and the author of Parenting the Screenager, a book that outlined very easy-to-follow tips for parents of the modern tech-savvy child. 

For the last six years, I have been writing a weekly column called Learning Points for the Irish Examiner.