A review by crowyhead
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life by Susan Forward

3.0

This is weird to review because I don't actually have parents I'd term toxic, so I'm not sure I can really rate it based on its helpfulness. I did feel that while it sometimes strayed into a kind of self-help-ish-ness that I tend to really dislike, the author seems to have a lot of useful things to say. I liked that Forward focuses a lot on the concrete, visible ways that relationships with others can affect one's life, rather than just talking about one's wounded inner child or somesuch (although she does do that). I'd recommend it to people who have difficult parents, if they can stomach a bit of self-help jargon.