The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
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The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life

Patricia Love
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From Dr. Patricia Love, a ground-breaking work that identifies, explores and treats the harmful effects that emotionally and psychologically invasive parents have on their children, and provides a program for overcoming the chronic problems that can result.
Genres: PsychologyNonfictionSelf HelpParentingMental HealthRelationshipsAbuseFamilyCounsellingResearch
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