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Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Toxic Parents Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Author: Susan Forward
When you were a child... — Did your parents tell you were bad or worthless? — Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you? — Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems? — Were you frightened of your parents? — Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret? — Now that you are an adult... — Do your paren...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780553284348
ISBN-10: 0553284347
Publication Date: 10/1/1990
Pages: 336
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4 stars, based on 37 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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syntheticashe avatar reviewed Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life on + 7 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
Ohh I used to have this book! I don't know what happened to it! I thought it was very good. It explains WHY parents (or any other adults who raised you) do what they do. So it gives you some understanding of what's going on in their head that caused them to be mean, selfish, and/or irresponsible.
reviewed Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life on + 115 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
Excellent advice for abuse victims.This wonderful book validates the very real abuse scars left on abuse victims without laying the additional burden of "you HAVE to forgive" or "Just get over it" or "simply stop being a victim/feeling sorry for yourself" or even worse, "why dwell on it? That was years ago" that so many abuse victims get from well-meaning friends and relatives. Also exposes the many too-simplistic forms of "therapy" that survivors are often confronted with: religion as a cure-all, forgiveness.... Her advice for true healing is practical and a welcome effort to those so scarred by their childhoods.
honestaccountant avatar reviewed Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life on + 74 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
In this self-help guide, Susan Forward, Ph.D., draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patters of your relationship with your parents--and discover a new world of self-confidence, inner strength and emotional independence.

Who are toxic parents?
Inadequate Parents
The Controllers
The Alcoholics
The Verbal Abusers
The Physical Abusers
The Sexual Abusers

You are not to blame for what happened to you as a child--but you can do something about it now!
reviewed Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life on + 23 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
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A dynamic, powerful, hard-hitting book. It offers tremendous hope as well as understanding. It could truly be a lifesaver.
Abigail Van Buren, Dear Abby

I consider Susan Forward to be among the foremost therapists of our age.
John Bradshaw, author of Healing the Shame That Binds You and Homecoming
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Helpful Score: 1
A dynamic, powerful, hard-hitting book.
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Very Interesting read
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Excellent, and very helpful insights.
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very good
solarawynn avatar reviewed Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life on + 724 more book reviews
Was helpful and answered a lot of questions
Lelopit avatar reviewed Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life on + 273 more book reviews
Good self-helper on bad parents and how to feel better.
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Just not a book for me.


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