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Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

by Susan Forward

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ISBN13: 9780553381405
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Are you the child of toxic parents?

When you were a child...

• Did your parents tell you 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 often frightened of your parents?
• Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?

Now that you’re an adult...

• Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child?
• Do you have intense emotional or physical reactions after spending time with your parents?
• Do your parents control you with threats or guilt? Do they manipulate you with money?
• Do you feel that no matter what you do, it’s never good enough for your parents?

In this remarkable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationship with your parents — and discover a new world of self-confidence, inner strength, and emotional independence.

Review:

“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”

Review:

“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


Bantam Books by Susan Forward:

Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them:
When Loving Hurts and You Don’t Know Why

Obsessive Love:
When It Hurts Too Much to Let Go

Toxic Parents:
Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

Synopsis:

Now in trade paperback, this bestseller reveals the complex legacy of inadequate, controlling, or abusive parents, and how adult children can get free of these destructive relationship patterns.

About the Author

Susan Forward, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned therapist, lecturer, and author of the number one New York Times bestsellers Toxic Parents and Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them, as well as Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and Its Devastation, Money Demons, Emotional Blackmail, When Your Lover Is a Liar, and Toxic In-Laws.

In addition to her private practice, for five years she hosted a daily ABC talk-radio program. She has also served widely as a group therapist, instructor, and consultant in many southern California medical and psychiatric facilities, and she formed the first private sexual abuse treatment center in California. She lives in Los Angeles and has two grown children.

Dr. Forward maintains offices in Sherman Oaks, California. For further information, call (818) 986-1161.


Craig Buck, a film and television writer and producer, has also written extensively on human behavior for many national magazines and newspapers. He is the co-author, with Susan Forward, of Toxic Parents, Betrayal of Innocence, and Money Demons. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

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crowyhead, May 7, 2008 (view all comments by crowyhead)
This is weird to review because I don't actually have parents I'd term toxic, so I'm not sure I can really rate it based on its helpfulness. I did feel that while it sometimes strayed into a kind of self-help-ish-ness that I tend to really dislike, the author seems to have a lot of useful things to say. I liked that Forward focuses a lot on the concrete, visible ways that relationships with others can affect one's life, rather than just talking about one's wounded inner child or somesuch (although she does do that). I'd recommend it to people who have difficult parents, if they can stomach a bit of self-help jargon.
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jayde828, December 20, 2006 (view all comments by jayde828)
Well written and to the point, be careful when reading this book. Make sure that you have a good support system surrounding you. I would recomend that some one close to you read the book with you as well, so they know what you are going through.
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Janice, May 9, 2006 (view all comments by Janice)
This is a simple but powerful primer on the devastating damage that parents can and do to their children. The chapters in the first half of the book itemize the different types of "toxic parenting"; the second half describes how someone can overcome the damage and start to heal. Whether you have a "toxic parent" or know someone who has been hurt by one, the author's insight and ability to communicate clearly on this emotional subject is incredibly helpful.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780553381405
Subtitle:
Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
With:
Buck, Craig
Author:
Forward, Susan
Author:
Buck, Craig
Publisher:
Bantam
Subject:
Interpersonal Relations
Subject:
Dysfunctional Families
Subject:
Adult child abuse victims
Subject:
Parent & Adult Child
Subject:
Codependency
Subject:
Parenting - Parent & Adult Child
Subject:
Problem families -- United States.
Subject:
Adult child abuse victims -- United States.
Publication Date:
January 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.42x5.18x.81 in. .59 lbs.

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