Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (16pt Large Print Edition) by Lindsay C. Gibson

24 reviews

malachinelson's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Informative book which describes emotionally immature parents, their children, their relationships, childhood and adult difficulties, remediation, and tools for success. Very hopeful and difficult book to read. 

I only wish that the book was longer and slower paced. It moves too quickly and lacks deep exploration of some issues. It is lacking on the intersection of emotional immaturity and race, gender, social class, etc.

I read it every few years as a way of checking in with my own personal development as I continually navigate relationships with parents and friends at various levels of emotional maturity.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Misogyny, Suicide, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

stepnic's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Child abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Infidelity, and Addiction

tomato_bisque's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Very enlightening read, I really think everyone can learn something from it. My few complaints was how internalizer-focused it was. I felt like more focus could've been on externalizers. As she herself said, everyone falls on a spectrum. Another thing that bothered me was it was a bit stigmatizing, "emotionally immature" and "mature" was probably used for simplicity. Again, we all do fall on a spectrum. Even the most emotionally mature person has moments of immaturity. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

m1m1m1m1's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

johannarose's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

hann_smc's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

This book is a great starting point for learning to recognize emotionally immature behaviors in your parents (and yourself!), but it is very much a starting point. If you have been on this journey for any length of time quite a bit of it becomes redundant. 
The beginning felt like it was leaning "blame all your issues on your parents, don't worry about taking accountability for anything" but later chapters did start to dive into ways to make changes in order to be more emotionally mature / attract emotionally mature people into your life which was good. 
It relies heavily on anecdotes, which sometimes can be interesting, but often they were very surface level and repetitive. 
Again, this book was very much for the start of the journey. If that's where I was then I do think this book would have been more eye-opening for me. As it was, I still did learn and it was able to inspire some soul searching on my part. Especially the later chapters.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

nerdy_reader_9571's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

earthlyfaerie's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Addiction

betsygrace's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

This was a great read. If anyone has any sort of conflict with a loved one, this book can be a great guide to setting boundaries and reacting to emotionally immature people. I really liked it. Would’ve given it five stars, but it is a little slow. That said, it was still incredibly informative and enlightening for me! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship