Infuriating, critical, demanding, and unreasonable parents -- Lingering effects of parental self-absorption -- Still hurting: the child as an adult -- Difficult situations and how to cope -- Identify and overcome hidden toxic effects of your parent -- Eight strategies to stop hurting and how to get positive revenge -- Strategies to strengthen your self -- My ideal self: determine the person you want to be -- Get to the ideal: build a new and better self -- You can do it: taking charge of your self.
Summary:
"A fully revised and updated edition of a self-help classic, Children of the Self-Absorbed, Third Edition offers adult children of narcissistic parents practical tools to understand and cope with the behaviors and attitudes of their parent while still meeting their own needs. With this third edition, readers will learn to set boundaries, employ strategies for maintaining a less destructive relationship, and take steps toward emotional healing"-- Provided by publisher.
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