Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson has become wildly popular. I’m guessing many of you have read it, or at least heard about it. It’s everywhere—shared in ...

The emotionally immature person — it’s like ... re describing,’ or ’She sounds like a borderline personality disorder.’ But I’m not going to say that to my client.

Emotional immaturity is not an official disorder—it's not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ...

Defensive parents react with rage and guilt trips because of their fragile self-image. Their illusion of being a “good parent” makes accountability feel impossible.