Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Dr. Lindsay C. Gibson is a life-changing guide for anyone who grew up with a parent who was emotionally unavailable, self-centred, unpredictable, or unable to meet their children's emotional needs. Written with clinical wisdom and genuine compassion, the book helps readers identify the lasting impact of this kind of upbringing — and provides a clear, empowering path toward healing and self-reclamation.

Dr. Gibson identifies four types of emotionally immature parents — the emotional, the driven, the passive, and the rejecting — and shows how each creates distinctive patterns of loneliness, self-doubt, people-pleasing, and a persistent sense of emptiness in their adult children. She explains how these childhood dynamics continue to play out in adult relationships and internal experience, often without the person even realising the connection.

More importantly, the book provides practical, evidence-based tools for recovering your authentic self: learning to identify your true feelings and needs, establishing appropriate boundaries with emotionally immature family members, and building the inner resources that allow you to stop internalising others' limitations as your own failings.

Profoundly validating and enormously practical, this book has helped millions of readers make sense of their past and reclaim the future they deserve. One of the most recommended psychology books in therapeutic settings worldwide — and with very good reason.

Product Details

ISBN: 9781626251700
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Author: Lindsay C. Gibson
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Recommended Age: 18+
Weight: Approx. 310 g
Delivery Time: 5-7 Business Days