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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
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11 minute read
Published Jun 1, 2015
What you'll learn
Why are self-involved parents unable to give the love and care their child needs? How does emotional neglect in childhood trickle down into adulthood? And why do so many adults still feel emotionally lonely in their relationships? Clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson offers insight into these questions in this bestselling book, showing how a greater understanding of yourself and your past can transform the way you connect with others, and help you shed emotional loneliness.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 The core of a parent’s emotional immaturity is a focus on the self, and the lack of awareness for their own child’s need for emotional connection.
- 2 Identifying how emotionally unhealthy parents act can reveal why your parents can’t (or couldn’t) provide the needed emotional connection.
- 3 Children of emotionally unavailable parents divide into two types: internalizers and externalizers.
- 4 Neglected children often come up with healing fantasies and roles they must play in order to gain a parent’s acceptance.
- 5 Knowing and accepting what you need and really feel is key to breaking unhealthy emotional patterns.
- 6 Emotional freedom from unhealthy parents requires a new kind of relationship.
- 7 Identifying key traits of emotionally mature people will enrich your relationships and help you develop deeper connections.
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