Volume 5 – Narcissistic Parents | E-Book (English)

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Narcissistic Parents

How to Overcome the Childhood Trap

The Narcissism Analysis Series · Volume 5

Sanja Panea

The child who was never right.

Narcissistic parents do not raise a child – they use one. As a mirror, as a trophy, as a scapegoat, as the invisible one who causes no trouble. Love is conditional, guilt and shame keep the system running, and the child learns one lesson above all: I only count when I function. That lesson does not end with childhood. It shapes relationships, work, self-worth, and the contact with the parents that is still, decades later, exhausting, frightening, and full of a hope that never dies.

In eighteen chapters, Sanja Panea shows how to recognize narcissistic parents, which roles the family system assigns, why the wound goes so deep – and how you get out from under it: by grieving the parents you never had, by disempowering their voice in your own head, by setting boundaries or, when distance is not enough, by going no contact. And by growing up anew: caring for the inner child without kitsch, building unconditional self-worth, and ending the cycle in your own family. Includes a 24-point self-assessment, exercises, and case examples in every chapter.

You were never too much. You were never too little. You were a child who deserved to be loved.

English edition, translated from the German original Narzisstische Eltern. PDF, 180 pages, A5 layout – readable on tablet, computer, and smartphone.