Toxic parents : overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life
Susan Forward (Author), Craig Faustus Buck (Contributor)
Provides advice for adult children of dysfunctional families
Self-help publications
326 pages ; 24 cm
9780553057003, 9780553381405, 0553057006, 0553381407
19630712
Part one: Toxic parents: Godlike parents: the myth of the perfect parent
"Just because you didn't mean it doesn't mean it didn't hurt": the inadequate parent
"Why can't they let me live my own life": the controllers
"No one in this family is an alcoholic": the acoholics
The bruises are all on the inside: the verbal abusers
Sometimes the bruises are on the outslide, too: the physical abusers
The ultimate betrayal: the sexual abusers
Why do partents behave this way?: the family system
Part tow: Reclaiming your life: You don't have to forgive
"I'm a grown-up. Why don't I feel like one?"
The beginnings of self-definition
Who's really responsible?
Confrontation: The road to independence
Healing the incest would
Breaking the cycle
Letting go of the struggle
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