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The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
The Emotional Incest Syndrome What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
Author: Patricia Love
(from the back cover) — Do these "endearments" sound familiar to you? —
  • "Of all my children, I expect the most of you." Translation: I've selected you to be the one to make my life worth living."
  • "You've never caused me a minute of trouble." Translation: Ignore your own needs. I can't ...  more »
  • "You're the only one who truly understands me." Translation: I would be totally alone if it weren't for you. 


If so, you may have been a "Chosen Child," seemingly the focus of loving and devoted parents, but in reality a child walking a psychological tightrope - learning early on to deny your own needs in order to meet the emotional needs of a parent. Today, there is a name for this devastating and increasingly common form of child abuse: emotional incest. 

Here, Dr. Patricia Love offers adults real hope - and help in overcoming the hurtful legacy of being a Chosen Child. Based on proven therapeutic techniques and using real-life case histories, her total program of recovery will help you:

  • identify the telltale signs of emotional incest
  • confront your parents - and your past - with love and understanding 
  • disentangle your life from theirs - even if your parents are no longer alive
  • create a positive relationship with your parents - and your own children


Filled with hope and compassion, The Emotional Incest Syndrome is a life-transforming guide to health and healing for all Chosen Children and the people who love them. 
ISBN-13: 9780553352757
ISBN-10: 055335275X
Publication Date: 2/1/1991
Pages: 304
Rating:
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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A great book for those people trying to move beyond their childhood.
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This is a very helpful book for dealing with the problem of having an overly attached and needy parent. It is helpful in realizing the pattern also and breaking it before passing it on to your old child. It was professionally recommended to me and I did get a lot from this book when I was younger.


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