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In this highly anticipated guide for clinicians, psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson outlines her unique approach to treating adult children who grew up with emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parents. In this comprehensive manual, clinicians will find powerful insights to help their clients heal the emotional wounds created by their parents, move on from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, decrease reactivity to emotionally immature behavior, find healthy ways to meet their own emotional needs, and rediscover their true selves.

Adult children of dysfunctional families --- Parent and adult child

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What happens when children are more mature than their parents? Growing up with an emotionally unavailable, immature, or selfish parent is painful, but rarely discussed. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson exposes an often overlooked, yet extremely common syndrome that shapes the lives of so many people. Gibson also provides powerful skills to help the adult children of self-centered parents gain the insight they need to move on from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, and find healthy ways to meet their own emotional needs.

Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Mental health. --- Dysfunctional families -- Psychological aspects. --- Emotional maturity. --- Adult children of dysfunctional families --- Emotional maturity --- Dysfunctional families. --- Mental health. --- Psychological aspects.

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Mothers and daughters --- Children of mentally ill mothers --- Adult children of dysfunctional families --- Adrian, Kim.

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Rob Mitchell is one of the last "lifers" raised in an American orphanage. Left by a dysfunctional family in an Illinois children's home, he grew up with kids who were not friends but rather "co-survivors." After becoming a Christian as a teenager, Rob found what he was looking for, home and family, in a relationship with God. Rob was able to overcome his past, forgiving his relatives and forging healthy family relationships of his own.

Orphans --- Children --- Parental rejection --- Adult children of dysfunctional families --- Institutional care --- Mitchell, R. B.

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Why, after a childhood of emotional neglect and abuse, would a man move next door to the very parents who caused him pain? And how can a woman emerge from her mother's control in order to form healthy adult relationships?Giving up family attachments that failed to meet our needs as children, David Celani argues, is the hardest psychological task an adult can undertake. Yet the reality is that many adults re-create the most painful aspects of their early relationships with their parents in new relationships with peers and romantic partners, frustrating themselves and discouraging

Adult children --- Adult children of dysfunctional families --- Separation (Psychology) --- Self-help techniques.