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Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist based in Virginia, USA.
Known for: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
This book explores how emotionally immature parents affect their children’s development and adult relationships. Clinical psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson explains the traits of emotionally immature parents—such as self-centeredness, lack of empathy, and emotional unavailability—and provides practical strategies for adult children to recognize these patterns, set boundaries, and heal from emotional neglect. The book offers guidance for building healthier relationships and reclaiming one’s emotional independence.
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Defining Emotional Immaturity and Its Impact on Parenting
Emotional immaturity is not about intelligence or competence—it’s about a fundamental inability to connect empathically and maintain emotional self-control. As I explain in the book, emotionally immature parents operate primarily according to their feelings in the moment rather than insight or emoti...
From Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
The Four Types of Emotionally Immature Parents
In helping readers identify patterns, I describe four primary types of emotionally immature parents: the emotional, the driven, the passive, and the rejecting. Each type demonstrates a different way that emotional immaturity manifests. The emotional type is unpredictable and ruled by feelings. Thes...
From Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
About Lindsay C. Gibson
Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist based in Virginia, USA. She has over thirty years of experience in private practice and specializes in individual psychotherapy and adult children of emotionally immature parents. Gibson is also the author of several books on emotional maturity and...
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Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist based in Virginia, USA. She has over thirty years of experience in private practice and specializes in individual psychotherapy and adult children of emotionally immature parents. Gibson is also the author of several books on emotional maturity and...
Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist based in Virginia, USA. She has over thirty years of experience in private practice and specializes in individual psychotherapy and adult children of emotionally immature parents. Gibson is also the author of several books on emotional maturity and personal growth.
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