The Unfortunate Reality Of Your Upbringing

Is it worth highlighting when you find yourself highlighting more than 60% of a book? Probably.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson PsyD really hits on multiple key areas of how one’s upbringing, though appearing to have been “fine,” may have been an experience that informs many of the difficulties one may be experiencing in adulthood.

After an excellent introduction that clearly lays out the subsequent pages, the book makes its case step-by-step, chapter by chapter, recontextualizing childhood experiences and walking through anonymized patient stories to explain how one might move forward from this experience.

While I’m sure the experiences covered in the book aren’t universal, it does feel at least common. I’d highly recommend it for anyone asking questions about their adult life, those with children, and really people in general hoping to understand more about themselves and others. A related book I read a couple years ago, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is a good companion, though it comes from an older tradition of psychotherapy.

I highly recommend this book.