Ebook: Children of the Self-Absorbed: a Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents

Acknowledgments; Preface; How to Use this Book; There Is Hope; Infuriating, Critical, Demanding, and Unreasonable Parents; Narcissism Defined; The Self-Absorbed Parent; The Child Who Assumed Parent Responsibilities; Two Responses to a Parental DNP; Is Your Parent A Destructive Narcissist?; Lingering Effects of Parental Self-Absorption; Were You Injured?; Helping Yourself; Still Hurting: The Child as an Adult; Your Attitudes and Behaviors; Understanding Your Contributions; Difficult Situations and How to Cope; Why You Feel as You Do; Difficult Situations; Specific Strategies to Help.;A second edition of a self-help classic, Children of the Self-Absorbed offers the adult children of narcissistic parents the means to understand and cope with the behaviors and attitudes of their mothers and/or fathers while still meeting their own needs.