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

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enbylievable's review against another edition

5.0

This is probably the best self-help book I've ever read. I strongly, strongly recommend it to anyone who is struggling with relationship anxiety or depression, even if you think your parents "weren't that bad." This book even taught me skillsets that I can use during my interactions with strangers, customers at work, friends, and neighbors. All around, it lays out in delightfully simple language how you can take back control of your emotions and stop letting other people make you feel like shit.

indoorcat23's review against another edition

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I wanted to read this to better understand one parent but it applied far more to the other parent who I prefer to never think about ever.

omamama's review

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emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

nellethebelle's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

incredibly informative and validating. this read was the therapy session of my dreams -- cured all my trauma and anxiety in one book :) but really, anyone who suspects that they were raised by folks with low emotional maturity/intelligence will gain tons of useful strategies and insights for moving forward and breaking the cycle.

foxtayle's review against another edition

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3.0

Interesting read. I appreciated the overall message of the book, though it could be repetitive and boring at times. It's ~200 pages but you can easily skim over 100 of those. Good for those who are interested in the early steps of childhood abuse reflection.

khaufnaak's review against another edition

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3.0

This book has good qualities. It’s validating for many to hear that they turned out a way because of explainable experiences. There were decent exercises and activities to analyze one’s thinking and experiences. It also imbues for readers by sharing examples of people who ended up in better places in life.

What concerns me a little about this book is the categorization of internalizing and externalizing people. The author does the grave mistake of assuming that only internalizers might be reading her book. Seems like you can’t have mixed traits! Or be one or the other at different times! She actually ends up framing internalizers as the perfect victims, the neglected perfect child who worried and fixes everything on their own. Internalizers and externalizers both suffer, but internalizers just seem BETTER. Also, why is drug use considered an automatic externalizer trait?