Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Author(s):
Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD.
Publishing / Edition:
New Harbinger Publications, 2015
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Acknowledgments v
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. How Emotionally Immature Parents Affect Their Adult Children's Lives 7
Chapter 2. Recognizing the Emotionally Immature Parent 25
Chapter 3. How It Feels to Have a Relationship with an Emotionally Immature Parent 49
Chapter 4. Four Types of Emotionally Immature Parents 67
Chapter 5. How Different Children React to Emotionally Immature Parenting 83
Chapter 6. What It's Like to Be an Internalizer 103
Chapter 7. Breaking Down and Awakening 123
Chapter 8. How to Avoid Getting Hooked by an Emotionally Immature Parent 141
Chapter 9. How It Feels to Live Free of Roles and Fantasies 159
Chapter 10. How to Identify Emotionally Mature People 177