Cutting Loose: An Adults Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents
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Cutting Loose: An Adults Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents  -     By: Howard M. Halpern

Cutting Loose: An Adults Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents

Touchstone / 1990 / Paperback

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Title: Cutting Loose: An Adults Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents
By: Howard M. Halpern
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Touchstone
Publication Date: 1990
Dimensions: 8.70 X 6.22 X 0.67 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0671696041
ISBN-13: 9780671696047
Stock No: WW696047

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In all respects, you appear to be well-adjusted, reasonably successful adult, but in the presence of your parents, you feel vulnerable, dependent, guilty, insecure—childlike. They manipulate you, smother you, demand your attention or elicit your resentment.

In clear, nonclinical terms, renowned psychotherapist Dr. Howard Halpern shows you how to break these familiar family routines so that you can build healthy, rewarding parent-child relationships. He teaches you, for example, how to handle martyred mothers, despotic fathers, and moralistic, unloving, or seductive parents. He also addresses the sensitive topics of how to deal with aging, divorced, or dying parents.

Resolving conflicts with your parents will enable you, finally, to cut loose—to start being yourself rather than your parent's child. Without guilt, revenge, or fear as your motives, you will be able to make the choices in love, work, and values that do justice to who you are.

With more than thirty-five years of experience in psychotherapy, Dr. Halpern enables the adult child to understand his or her parent and foster a positive, healthy adult relationship.

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Howard M. Halpern was a psychotherapist who focused on severing or realigning burdensome relationships.

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