My children have the blessing, or curse, depending on your point of view, of being the offspring of two psychotherapists, both of whom tilt Jungian. My daughter has said she didn't realize until she was in high school that not all families share and discuss dreams over breakfast. I'm guessing that they were not too badly scarred by their upbringing, though, as my son has recently begun his own journey as a psychotherapist, being a newly minted MSW.
Still, people seem to assume that the children of therapists must have more than usual kinds of problems, which exposes a kind of negative idea about therapy and the kinds of people who become therapists. Michael Toub, whose new memoir is about growing up the child of two Jungian analysts, reports he encounters surprise when people meet him that, given his parents, he is so normal.
Take a look at Jessica Grose's piece in Slate to read more about her take on this topic -- she too is the child of a therapist. Now I have to see if Toub's book is available as an eBook. Oh, and BTW, so far as I am aware, what research on children of therapists that there is shows them to be pretty much like other kids of educated parents.

