Lindsay C. Gibson

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

This book explores how growing up with emotionally unavailable parents can shape an adult's self-perception and relationships. It identifies common patterns of behavior and emotional struggles experienced by individuals who had distant, rejecting, or self-involved parents. The work offers practical strategies for understanding these childhood dynamics and developing healthier emotional responses and coping mechanisms to foster self-acceptance and more fulfilling connections.

Adult children of emotionally immature parents

Lindsay C. Gibson, Marguerite Gavin, Gavin Marguerite

2015

What happens when children are more mature than their parents? Growing up with an emotionally unavailable, immature, or selfish parent is painful, but rarely discussed. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson exposes an often overlooked, yet extremely common syndrome that shapes the lives of so many people. Gibson also provides powerful skills to help the adult children of self-centered parents gain the insight they need to move on from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, and find healthy ways to meet their own emotional needs.