How to Build Relationships with Emotionally Immature People

Start building relationships with emotionally immature people by considering your feelings and needs. If you grew up with emotionally immature parents, you are well acquainted with the feeling of emotional loneliness and the sense that you are not noticed, while you have to take responsibility for the self-esteem and emotional stability of others. These issues do not disappear when you enter independent life. «How to Build Relationships with Emotionally Immature People» helps find answers to the questions often faced by adult children of emotionally immature parents. You will learn how to put yourself first in your life, disengage from emotionally immature people, and communicate with them without harming yourself.

Dr. Lindsay C. Gibson – a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in individual psychotherapy for adult children of emotionally immature parents. She has written the books «Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents», «The Freedom to Be Yourself», «Choosing Yourself», and «Take Care of Yourself».

What you will find in the book: 

Part 1. Why Emotionally Immature People Became This Way

Part 2. How Emotionally Immature People Have Affected You

Part 3. Detachment

Part 4. Saving Ourselves

Part 5. Addressing Issues

Here is what Lindsay Gibson herself writes about this:
 «The book has five parts. In the first and second parts, I will talk about emotional immaturity and maturity, the motives of emotionally immature people, and their influence on your life. The third part will help understand why it is so important to step back to restructure your relationships with emotionally immature people and to reconsider how much energy you are willing to give them. From the fourth part, you will learn how to change self-destructive beliefs you have adopted in communicating with people who told you what you should do and how you should be. Finally, in the fifth part, we will discuss solutions to the most difficult problems, both internal and those arising in communication with emotionally immature people».