Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

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

29 reviews

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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Graphic: Toxic relationship

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

aclinton13's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Grief

cigarete_smoke's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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

shima707's review against another edition

Disturbingly useful

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Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

_maddy_'s review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

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

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

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, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

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

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Infidelity

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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Moderate: Child abuse

basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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