Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168209 in Books
• Published on: 1991-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Synopsis
Explains how to escape common traps that lead one into familiar and unproductive behavioral patterns.

Customer Reviews

Great book for providing practical behavioural tips
This book is the best I have yet found in dealing with practical answers for adult children of dysfunctional families. Often we struggle with the emptiness between identifying our unhealthy behaviour and enacting healthy behaviour. This book helps begin filling the space with some answers.

practical help in an easy-to-read format
Knowing you grew up in a dysfunctional family does not necessarily mean you know how to deal with it when you are grown up. Knowing they are manipulative doesn't necessarily help you to defend yourself against their manipulativeness.This book very helpfully identifies some behaviours that are both common and unhealthy-then shows you, equally helpfully, what to do about them. It's reassuring on another level too-you realize that the craziness you grew up with is someone else's, not yours, and that you can live differently. It IS a bit American self-helpy, but still worth it.And it's set out in such a way that you can use it for quick reference.

A must read for all Adult Children
First I read Adult Children: Secrets of Dysfunctional Families. A great book to read everytime you feel "different" from the rest of the world! And then came this book: having completed my intensive 1-week psychotherapy for A.Children, and not having read any books on the adult child isssue before, I found this book to be precise, straight forward and realistic.
This book easily explains the origins and repeated patterns of adult child behaviour, processes that may have led to addictions (alcohol, work, food and other), and the essential personal work to lead one to the root of the problem. I certainly found this book helpful towards the road to recovery.