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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents : How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oakland : New Harbinger Publications, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781626251717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.89156
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- How Emotionally Immature Parents Affect Their Adult Children's Lives -- Chapter 2 -- Recognizing the Emotionally Immature Parent -- Chapter 3 -- How It Feels to Have a Relationship with an Emotionally Immature Parent -- Chapter 4 -- Four Types of Emotionally Immature Parents -- Chapter 5 -- How Different Children React to Emotionally Immature Parenting -- Chapter 6 -- What It's Like to Be an Internalizer -- Chapter 7 -- Breaking Down and Awakening -- Chapter 8 -- How to Avoid Getting Hooked by an Emotionally Immature Parent -- Chapter 9 -- How It Feels to Live Free of Roles and Fantasies -- Chapter 10 -- How to Identify Emotionally Mature People -- Epilogue -- References -- About the Author.
Summary: What happens when children are more mature than their parents? Growing up with an emotionally unavailable, immature, or selfish parent is painful, but rarely discussed. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson exposes an often overlooked, yet extremely common syndrome that shapes the lives of so many people. Gibson also provides powerful skills to help the adult children of self-centered parents gain the insight they need to move on from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, and find healthy ways to meet their own emotional needs.
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Intro -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- How Emotionally Immature Parents Affect Their Adult Children's Lives -- Chapter 2 -- Recognizing the Emotionally Immature Parent -- Chapter 3 -- How It Feels to Have a Relationship with an Emotionally Immature Parent -- Chapter 4 -- Four Types of Emotionally Immature Parents -- Chapter 5 -- How Different Children React to Emotionally Immature Parenting -- Chapter 6 -- What It's Like to Be an Internalizer -- Chapter 7 -- Breaking Down and Awakening -- Chapter 8 -- How to Avoid Getting Hooked by an Emotionally Immature Parent -- Chapter 9 -- How It Feels to Live Free of Roles and Fantasies -- Chapter 10 -- How to Identify Emotionally Mature People -- Epilogue -- References -- About the Author.

What happens when children are more mature than their parents? Growing up with an emotionally unavailable, immature, or selfish parent is painful, but rarely discussed. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson exposes an often overlooked, yet extremely common syndrome that shapes the lives of so many people. Gibson also provides powerful skills to help the adult children of self-centered parents gain the insight they need to move on from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, and find healthy ways to meet their own emotional needs.

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