Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

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

10 reviews

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

julleah's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

cigarete_smoke's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

akvolcano's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Great book! Provided a lot of language to help articulate my experience. Had a lot realizations. Would recommend and would read again!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Confinement, Chronic illness, Death, Ableism, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Infidelity, Hate crime, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Bullying, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

marxxx's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse

johannarose's review

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

arby55's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

harpoon's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

this book was incredibly hard to read, but incredibly useful in coping with emotionally immature parents. 1000000% recommend for those who think their parents may be emotionally immature, no matter to what degree.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

orchidd's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse