Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

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

16 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

hale7's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Really helpful for people looking to understand their emotionally immature and/or malignant narcissist parents or guardians. Doesn’t hold enough nuance for people of the global majority. Most of the emphasis on the book is how to maintain a relationship with these parents, and didn’t spend enough time on adult children who have already done these steps and are needing to move to low/no contact. Attachment theory would be a helpful addition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Gaslighting

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

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

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

aus10england's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, and Gaslighting