Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1572245611 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Instead, realistic strategies and steps are suggested for learning to set mutually agreed upon behaviors that can help you fulfill your needs and expectations.. This may especially be the case when a parent has narcissistic tendencies or narcissistic personality disorder. But what happens when this isn't the case? Some parents dismiss the needs of their children, asserting their own instead, demanding attention and reassurance from even very young children. With the aid of proven techniques, you'll discover that you're not helpless against your parent's behavior and that you needn't consider giving up on the relationship. From the author of Working with the Self-Absorbed and Loving the Self-Absorbed, this major revision of a self-help classic offers a step-by-step approach to resolving conflict and building a meaningful relationship with a narcissistic parent.Children of the Self-Absorbed offers clear definitions of narciss
Frost, Ed.D., assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. "For those of us who have often suffered the inevitable humiliating regression back to childhood during every holiday with the family…this book offers real help to the reader to develop the self-protective art of indifference, a cloak that can be used at many a holiday gathering…and to understand the subtle yet profound differences between ineffective and effective confrontation, empathy and sympathy, and attaching response and defusing strategy…a completely new cupboard of techniques."—Joel C
"This is a Wonderful Book" according to Marisa. A co-worker of mine recommended this book to me a few years back but I was not ready to evaluate my life. Now I wish I would have listened to her. From the very first paragraph of this book it described my relationship with mother. I found the reading of it to be easy and insightful with simple exercises that were also enlightening.For years I have struggled with mother, trying to cope with and change her. It's a bit cliché but, I learned I can't change her. I can only chan. Evil: ignorant of the issues, enables the abusers Cessily This is the most evil, damaging "self-help" book I have ever read.The author does not understand the nature of narcissistic personality disorder, or she would not say things like "they did the best they could under the circumstances", referring to NPD parents, and she would not try to teach adult children of narcs to maintain a relationship with them by practicing the very behaviours and traits that abused people often become programmed with! (Go numb, blank face, hear the words b. "It all makes so much sense now!" according to C.Miller. The explanations and descriptions in this book demonstrate what happens between my mother and I. Now so many things make SENSE! This book has changed my life. Narcissists do not have children to give, but to receive. They do not see their children as individuals, but as extensions of themselves. Therefore, their boundary issues, the words they say and the things they do that has compromised your relationship with your parent for so long are now explained by Dr. Brown. She does ask