Helpful 
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•
Unhealthy
Family Systems 
• Adult-life
Consequences of Unhealthy 
Family Systems 
• Relationships with
Parents in Adulthood 
•
Healing 
from Unhealthy Control 
•
Other 
Forms of Unhealthy 
Control 
•
Memoirs
by Adults Raised in Controlling Families 
•
Selected
Novels about Controlling Families 
• How to Raise Children Without Unhealthy Control  
 
 
Books on Related Topics 
Dealing with
Controlling and Manipulative
People 
Unhealthy Narcissism
 
Emotional and Verbal Abuse 
Physical and Sexual Abuse 
Passive-Aggressive Behavior 
Borderline Personality Disorder 
Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior 
Unhealthy Perfectionism 
Shame and Guilt 
Emotional Incest 
Domestic Violence 
Military Families 
Destructive Cults 
Self-esteem 
Dysfunctional, Abusive, and/or Addictive Relationships 
Forgiveness 
Healthy Boundaries 
Books on Controlling or Dysfunctional Families
and/or Relationships from Christian-themed Publishers  
 
  
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Books about Unhealthy Family
Systems 
Toxic
Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life  
Susan Forward, 1989 
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents  
Lindsay Gibson, 2015 
Trapped
in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self  
Elan Golomb, 1992 
The
Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self   
Alice Miller,
1996
 
Soul
Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation   
Leonard
Shengold, 1989 
The
Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment  
Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman, 1997 
Children
of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-up's Guide to Getting Over
Narcissistic Parents  
Nina Brown, 2001 
If
You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and
Take Your Place in the World  
Dan Neuharth, 1999 
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Books About Adult-life Consequences of Unhealthy
Family Systems 
The
Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You  
Elaine Aron, 1996  
Healing
the Shame that Binds You  
John Bradshaw, 1988  
The
Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond  
Patricia Evans, 1992  
Too
Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control  
Allan
Mallinger, 1992  
Adult
Children of Abusive Parents  
Steven Farmer, 1989  
The
Care and Feeding of Perfectionists  
Cynthia Curnan,
1999 
Never Good
Enough: Freeing Yourself from the Chains of Perfectionism  
Monica Ramirez Basco,
1999  
Boundaries
and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self  
Charles Whitfield,
1993  
The
Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome  
Harriet Braker, 2001 
The
Highly Sensitive Person in Love: How Your Relationships Can Thrive
When the World Overwhelms You  
Elaine Aron, 2000 
Amongst
Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living With Dissociative Identity
Disorder  Tracy Alderman, 1998 
Sorrow's
Web: Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression  
Anne
Sheffield, 2000 
Surviving a Borderline Parent:
How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & 
Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem 
Kimberlee Roth et 
al, 2003 
Perfect Daughters  Robert Ackerman, 
2002 
The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You 
Missed  
Jasmin Lee Cory, 2010 
  
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Books About Relationships with Parents in
Adulthood 
Mothers
Who Drive Their Daughters Crazy  
Susan and Edward
Cohen, 1997 
When
You and Your Mother Cant Be Friends  
Victoria
Secunda, 1990 
Coping
with Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide for Stressed-Out Children  
Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane,
1999   
When
Parents Love Too Much: Freeing Parents and Children to Live Their
Own Lives  Laurie Ashner, 1997 
Losing
Your Parents, Finding Your Self: The Defining Turning Point in Adult
Life  Victoria Secunda, 2000 
Hand-Me-Down
Dreams: How Families influence our Career Paths and How We Can
Reclaim Them  
Mary Jacobsen, 1999 
Respecting
Your Limits When Caring for Aging Parents  
Vivian Greenberg, 1998 
How
to Manage Your Mother: Understanding the Most Difficult, Complicated
and Fascinating Relationship in Your Life  
Alyce Faye Cleese, 2000 
How
to Manage Your Mother: Skills and Strategies to Improve Mother-Daughter
Relationships  
Nancy Cocola and Arlene Matthews, 1992 
Another
Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders  
Mary Pipher, 1999 
Divorcing
a Parent: A Sympathetic and Practical Guide for Adult Children Who Need to Free Themselves
From an Abusive Relationship with a Parent  
Beverly
Engel, 1990 
 
Understanding
the Borderline Mother: Helping
Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile
Relationship  
Christine
Lawson, 2000 
 
Making
Peace with Your Parents  
Harold Bloomfield, 1983 
I
Only Say This Because I Love You:  How the Way We Talk Can Make
or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives  
Deborah Tannen, 2001 
 
Are
Your Parents Driving You Crazy? How to Resolve the Most Common
Dilemmas with Aging Parents  
Joseph Ilardo, Carole Rothman, 2001 
Cutting
Loose: An Adult's Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents  
Howard
Halpern, 1990 
Elder
Rage, or Take My Father . . . Please!: How to Survive Caring for
Aging Parents  Jacqueline Marcell, 
2001 
Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business  
Quentin Fleming, 2000 
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Books About Healing 
Legacy of the
Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood  
Wayne
Muller, 1992 
Getting
Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children 
Nancy Napier, 1993 
The
Six Pillars of Self Esteem  
Nathaniel Branden,
1995 
Learned
Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Life  
Martin Seligman,
1998 
The
Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence 
Gavin De Becker,
1999 
The
Feeling Good Handbook  
David Burns, 1999 
The
Resilient Self: How Survivors of Troubled Families Rise Above Adversity 
Steven and Sybil Wolin, 1993 
Self-Esteem:
A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving and Maintaining Your
Self-Esteem  
Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning, 1987 
Don't
Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff  
Richard
Carlson, 1997 
The
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 
Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, 1994 
How Can I Forgive You? The Courage To 
Forgive, the Freedom Not To  Janis 
Spring, 2004 
The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection  
Robert Karen, 2001 
It's
My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic
Violence  
Meg Dugan and Roger Hock, 2000 
The
Emotionally Abused Woman: Overcoming Destructive Patterns and
Reclaiming Yourself  Beverly Engel, 1992 
Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children 
 Eliana Gil, 1988 
Secrets You Keep From Yourself: How to Stop Sabotaging Your 
Happiness  Dan Neuharth, 2004 
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Books About
Other Forms of Unhealthy Control 
Why
Is It Always About You?  Saving Yourself from the Narcissists
in Your Life  
Sandy Hotchkiss,
2002 
Divorcing a Narcissist: One Mom's Battle  Tina 
Swithin, 2012 
Controlling
People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try
to Control You  Patricia Evans, 2002 
Emotional
Blackmail: When the People In Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and
Guilt to Manipulate You  
Susan Forward, 1998 
The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship 
in Work, Love, and Family  
Eleanor Payson, 2002 
Living
with the Passive-Aggressive Man  
Scott Wetzler, 1993 
The Verbally Abusive Man  Patricia 
Evans, 2006 
Say Goodbye to Your PDI (Personality Disordered Individuals): Recognize People 
Who Make You Miserable and Eliminate Them From Your Life for Good   
Stan Kapuchinski, 2007 
Loving the Self-Absorbed: How to Create a More Satisfying 
Relationship with a Narcissistic Partner  
Nina Brown, 2003 
Help! I'm in Love with a Narcissist  
Steven Carter, Julia Sokol 2005 
The Sociopath Next Door  Martha 
Stout, 2005 
Why Does He Do That: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men  
Lundy Bancroft, 2003 
Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to Do When A Parent's Love Rules 
Your Life  Patricia Love, 1991 
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners. 
Understanding Covert Incest  Kenneth 
Adams, 1991 
I
Hate You -- Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality 
Jerold Kreisman, 1991 
Stop
Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has
Borderline Personality Disorder  
Paul Mason, 1998 
Lost
in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder 
Richard Moskovitz, 1996 
Surviving 
a Borderline Parent: 
How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Build 
Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
 Kimberlee 
Roth, 2003 
Breaking Free from Boomerang Love:  Getting Unhooked from 
Borderline Personality Disorder Relationships  
Lynn Melville, 2004 
When
Friendship Hurts: How to Deal with Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or
Wound You  Jan Yager, 2002 
People-Reading:
How We Control Others, How They Control Us  
Ernst
Beier, 1989 
In
Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People 
George Simon, 1996 
Coping
with Difficult People  
Robert Bramson, 1998 
Thank You for Being Such a Pain: Spiritual Guidance for Dealing with Difficult 
People  Mark Rosen, 1999 
151 Quick Ideas to Deal with Difficult People  
Carrie Mason-Draffen, 2007 
201 Ways to Deal With Difficult People  Alan 
Axelrod, 1997 
Dealing with People You Can't Stand  
Rick Brinkman, 2002 
Since Strangling Isn't an Option  
Sandra Crowe, 1999 
Military
Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress  
Mary
Edwards Wertsch, 1996 
But
I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive
Dating Relationships  
Jill Murray, 2000 
The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern  
Nina Brown, 1998 
When
God Becomes a Drug: Breaking the Chains of Religious Addiction and
Abuse  
Father Leo Booth and John Bradshaw, 1992  
Cults
in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives  
Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, 1996 
Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry  
Albert Bernstein, 2002 
Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse  
Gregory Jantz and Ann McMurray, 2009 
Brain
Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior  
Jeffrey Schwartz, 1997 
How
to Break Your Addiction to a Person  
Howard Halpern,
1983 
Toxic
In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage  
Susan Forward,
2002 
 
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Memoirs
by Adults Raised in Controlling Families 
Daughter of Narcissus: A Family's Struggle to Survive Their Mother's 
Narcissistic Personality Disorder  Lady Colin 
Campbell, 2009 
A Child Called
'It': One Child's Courage to Survive  
Dave Pelzer, 1995 
Mommie
Dearest  Christina Crawford, 1981 
Personal
History  Katharine Graham, 1998 
Fresh Out of Hell: Escaping the 
Negative Influences of Toxic Parenting  
Alyson Kay, 2005 
Foreskin's Lament  Shalom Auslander, 
2007 
Lies My Mother Never Told Me  Kaylie Jones 2009 
Ten
Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan 
Elizabeth Kim, 2000 
 
 
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Selected
Novels
about Controlling Families
The
Corrections  Jonathan Franzen, 2001 
The
Great Santini  Pat Conroy, 1987 
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Books About Raising Children 
without Unhealthy Control 
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 
Mary Pipher, 1995 
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys 
Daniel Kindlon et al, 
2000 
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood  
William Pollack, 1999 
The Intentional Family: Simple Rituals to Strengthen Family Ties 
William Doherty, 1999 
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk 
Adele Faber and Elaine 
Mazlish, 1999 
Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers  
Michael Riera, 1995 
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate 
with Your Baby  
Tracy Hogg and Melinda Blau, 2002 
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast, Too Soon  
David Elkind, 2001 
The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap 
Alvin Rosenfeld, 2001 
The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and 
Life  Michael 
Thompson, 2004 
The Pocket Parent  Gail Reichlin and 
Caroline Winkler, 2001 
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills 
to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors 
Pat Harvey, Jeanine Penzo, 2009
 
 
  
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Dealing
with Controlling and Manipulative People 
Controlling
People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try
to Control You   Patricia Evans, 2002 
 
In
Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People  George Simon, 1996 
 
Coping
with Difficult People   Robert Bramson, 1998 
 
Emotional
Blackmail: When the People In Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to
Manipulate You   Susan Forward, 1998 
 
People-Reading:
How We Control Others, How They Control Us   
Ernst Beier, 1989 
 
Stop
Controlling Me! What to Do When Someone You Love Has Too Much Power Over You  
Richard Stenack, 2001 
Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain 
Control of Your Life  Harriet 
Braiker, 2003 
Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry  
Albert Bernstein, 2002 
151 Quick Ideas to Deal with Difficult People  
Carrie Mason-Draffen, 2007 
Thank You for Being Such a Pain: Spiritual Guidance for Dealing with Difficult 
People  Mark Rosen, 1999 
201 Ways to Deal With Difficult People  Alan 
Axelrod, 1997 
Dealing with People You Can't Stand  Rick 
Brinkman, 2002 
Since Strangling Isn't an Option  Sandra Crowe, 
1999 
How to Deal With Emotionally Explosive People  
Albert Bernstein, 2002 
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitative Relationships  
Patrick Carnes, 1997 
Say Goodbye to Your PDI (Personality Disordered Individuals): Recognize People 
Who Make You Miserable and Eliminate Them From Your Life for Good   
Stan Kapuchinski, 2007 
Stalking the Soul  Marie-France 
Hirigoyen, 2004 
Character Disturbance: The Phenomenon of Our Age  
George Simon 2011 
The Manipulative Man:  Identify His Behavior, Counter the Abuse, Regain 
Control  Dorothy McCoy 2006 
BIFF: Quick Responses to High Conflict People, Their Hostile Emails, Personal 
Attacks and Social Media Meltdowns  Bill 
Eddy, 2011 
The One-Way Relationship Workbook: Step-by-Step Help for Coping With 
Narcissists, Egotistical Lovers, Toxic Coworkers, and Others Who Are Incredibly 
Self-Absorbed  Alan 
Cavaiola and Neil Lavender, 2011 
  
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Unhealthy
Narcissism 
Why
Is It Always About You? Saving Yourself from the Narcissists in Your Life 
  
Sandy Hotchkiss, 2002 
 
Trapped
in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self  
Elan Golomb, 1992 
 
The
Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment  Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and 
Robert Pressman, 1997 
 
Children
of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic
Parents   Nina Brown, 2001 
 
Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving With the Self-absorbed
 Wendy Behary, 2008 
 
Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life  
Linda Martinez-Lewi, 2008 
Divorcing a Narcissist: One Mom's Battle  Tina 
Swithin, 2012 
 
Narcissistic Lovers: How to Cope, Recover and Move On 
  Cynthia Zayn & 
Kevin Dibble, 2007 
When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself  
Keith Campbell, 2005 
 
Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me: How to Recognize and Manage the 
Narcissists in Your Life   
 Les Carter, 2008
 
The
Destructive Narcissistic Pattern   
Nina Brown, 1998 
Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers 
Karyl McBride, 2009 
 
Loving the Self-Absorbed: How to Create a More Satisfying Relationship with a 
Narcissistic Partner   
Nina Brown, 2003
 
The
Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self   
Alice
Miller, 1996 
 
The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship 
in Work, Love, and Family  Eleanor 
Payson, 2002
 
 
Help! I'm in Love with a Narcissist  
Steven Carter, 2005 
The Object of My Affection is in My Reflection:  Coping With Narcissists  
Rokelle Lerner, 2008 
Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality  
Elsa Ronningstam, 2005 
 
Disorders of Narcissism: Diagnostic, Clinical, and Empirical Implications  
Elsa Ronningstam, 2008 
You Might Be a Narcissist If . . . How to Identify Narcissism in Ourselves and 
Others and What We Can Do About It  
Paul Meier et al, 2010 
The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical 
Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments 
 Keith Campbell, 
Joshua Miller (eds), 2011 
 
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement 
 Jean Twenge, 2010 
 
The Everything Guide to Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Professional, 
Reassuring Advice for Coping with the Disorder at Work, at Home, and in Your 
Family  Cynthia 
Lechan Goodman and Barbara Leff, 2011 
 
If
You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your
Place in the World  
Dan Neuharth, 1999 
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Emotional
and Verbal Abuse 
The
Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond  
Patricia Evans, 1992 
 
The
Emotionally Abused Woman: Overcoming Destructive Patterns and Reclaiming
Yourself 
Beverly Engel, 1992 
Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse  
Gregory Jantz and Ann McMurray, 2009 
No Visible Wounds:  Identifying Non-Physical Abuse of Women by Their Men  
Mary Susan Miller, 1996 
 
The Verbally Abusive Man  Patricia Evans, 2006 
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Physical
and Sexual Abuse 
The
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 
    
Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, 1994 
 
Toxic
Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life 
    
Susan Forward, 1989 
 
Soul
Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation  
Leonard
Shengold, 1989 
 
Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children  
Eliana Gil, 1988 
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to top 
 
Passive-Aggressive
Behavior 
Living
with the Passive-Aggressive Man  
Scott Wetzler, 1993 
Overcoming Passive-Aggression:  How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your 
Relationships, Career, and Happiness  
Tim Murphy & Loriann Hoff Oberlin, 2005 
    
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Borderline
Personality Disorder 
Understanding
the Borderline Mother  Christine Lawson, 2000 
 
I
Hate You -- Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality 
Jerold Kreisman, 1991 
 
Stop
Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline
Personality Disorder  
Paul Mason, 1998 
 
Lost
in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder 
Richard Moskovitz, 1996 
 
Surviving a Borderline Parent: 
How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Build Trust, 
Boundaries, and Self-Esteem 
Kimberlee Roth, 2003
 
 
Breaking Free from Boomerang Love:  Getting Unhooked from Borderline 
Personality Disorder Relationships  Lynn 
Melville, 2004 
The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder:  New Tools 
and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells  
Randi Kreger, 2008 
 
Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for 
Understanding and Living with BPD 
 Robert Friedel, 2004 
 
Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control 
Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship 
 Shari Manning, 
2011 
  
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Obsessive-Compulsive
Behavior 
Brain
Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior  Jeffrey
Schwartz, 1997 
 
Getting
Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions  Lee Baer, 2000 
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Unhealthy Perfectionism 
Too
Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control  Allan
Mallinger, 1992 
 
The
Care and Feeding of Perfectionists  Cynthia
Curnan, 1999 
 
Never
Good Enough: Freeing Yourself from the Chains of Perfectionism  Monica
Ramirez Basco, 1999 
 
When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism  
Martin Antony and Richard Swinson, 1998 
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Shame
and Guilt 
Healing
the Shame that Binds You  John Bradshaw, 1988 
  
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Emotional Incest 
Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to Do When A Parent's Love Rules 
Your Life  Patricia Love, 1991 
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners. 
Understanding Covert Incest  Kenneth 
Adams, 1991 
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Domestic
Violence 
It's
My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic
Violence   Meg Dugan and Roger Hock, 2000 
 
The
Domestic Violence Sourcebook   Dawn Berry, 2000 
 
Why Does He Do That: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men  
Lundy Bancroft, 2003 
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to top 
 
Military
Families 
Military
Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress  Mary Edwards
Wertsch, 1996 
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to top 
 
Destructive Cults 
Cults
in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives  
Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, 1996 
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to top 
 
Self-Esteem 
The
Six Pillars of Self Esteem  Nathaniel
Branden, 1995 
 
Self-Esteem:
A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques  
Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning, 1987 
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to top 
 
Dysfunctional, Abusive and/or 
Addictive
Relationships 
The
Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome   
Harriet
Braker, 2001 
 
How
to Break Your Addiction to a Person   
Howard Halpern, 1983 
 
But
I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating
Relationships  Jill Murray, 
2000 
 
Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or 
Narcissistic Personality Disorder 
 Randi Kreger, 2011 
 
The Abusive Personality, Second Edition: Violence and Control in Intimate 
Relationships  Donald 
Dutton, 2007 
The Little Black Book of Big Red Flags: Relationship Warning Signs You Totally 
Spotted... But Chose to Ignore 
 Natasha Burton et al, 2011 
"Not to People Like Us": Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages 
 Susan Weitzman, 
2011 
  
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Forgiveness 
How Can I Forgive You? : The Courage To Forgive, the Freedom Not To  Janis 
Spring, 2004 
 
The Forgiving Self: The Road From Resentment to Connection   Robert Karen, 2001 
 
Forgiveness
is a Choice  Robert Enright, 2001 
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to top 
  
 
Healthy
Interpersonal Boundaries 
Boundaries
and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self  
Charles
Whitfield, 1993 
 
Boundaries:
Where You End and I Begin  
Anne Katherine, 1993 
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Books
on Controlling or 
Dysfunctional Families
and Relationships by Christian-Themed 
publishers 
Sins of the Family: Becoming the Redemptive Generation  
Beverly Tauke 2004 
Released
from Shame: Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families  
Sandra Wilson, 1991 
The
Mom Factor   John Townsend and Henry Cloud, 1998 
Secrets
of Your Family Tree: Healing for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families  
Dave Carder et al, 1995 
Power
of a Parent's Words  
Norman Wright, 1991 
Heal and Forgive: Forgiveness in the 
Face of Abuse  
Nancy Richards, 2005 
The Emotionally Destructive Relationship:  Seeing It, Stopping It, 
Surviving It  
Leslie Vernick, 2007 
  
 
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