Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

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

19 reviews

johannarose's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

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

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: Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

nerdy_reader_9571's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

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, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

margztgz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

This book didn't show me much that I didn't already know, but regardless I thought it was a solid read that is accessible and clearly outlines both emotional immaturity in parents and how to cultivate your own positive relationships!! It's funny that my parent fit the descriptions in this book so perfectly, and I feel validated.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

nicklybear's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

honeydeer36's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

orchidd's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Gaslighting

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Physical abuse