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Children of the Self-absorbed: A Grown-up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents

Children of the Self-absorbed: A Grown-up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents

by NinaW.Brown (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. 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. This may especially be the case when a parent has narcissistic tendencies or narcissistic personality disorder. From the author of "Working with the Self-Absorbed and Loving the Self-Absorbed", this major revision of a self-help classic offers readers a step-by-step approach to resolving conflict and building a meaningful relationship with a narcissistic parent."Children of the Self-Absorbed, Second Edition", offers clear definitions of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder to help readers identify the extent of their parent's problem. Readers learn the different types of destructive narcissism and how to recognize their effects on relationships. With the aid of proven techniques, readers are assured that they are not helpless against their parent's behavior, and that they needn't consider giving up on the relationship. Instead, realistic strategies and steps are suggested for learning to set mutually agreed upon behaviors that can help fulfill the needs and expectations of both readers and their parents.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 250
 Edition: 2nd Ed
 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S.
Published: 01 May 2008
ISBN 10: 1572245611
ISBN 13: 9781572245617

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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. Frost, Ed.D., assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard Medical School


Children of the Self-Absorbed offers practical advice and guidance. The creative techniques and exercises are priceless to both the reader learning how to identify destructive parental behaviors and how to cope with them as well as the reader learning to nurture and protect his or her own developing self.
--Susan Hopper, Ph.D., clinical psychologist in private practice in St. Louis, MO


Children of narcissistic parents are provided techniques to dig themselves out of impossible relationships with their parents...a thoroughly well thought out, useful manual to help adult children move toward more productive connection to their narcissistic parents, to themselves, and to others.
--Joan Medway, Ph.D., LCSW, psychologist in private practice in Potomac, MD

Author Bio
Nina W. Brown, EdD, LPC, is a professor and eminent scholar of counseling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She received her doctorate from The College of William and Mary, is a past president of the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy, and a current commissioner for the American Psychological Association's Commission on Accreditation. Brown is the author of 27 books on group therapy and narcissism.