Eric Maisel 
Parents Who Bully [EPUB ebook] 
A Healing Guide for Adult Children of Immature, Narcissistic and Authoritarian Parents

Table of Contents

Author’s Preface
Part I. The Look of Mean

• The World of Mean


• Adverse Childhood Experiences


• What Family Bullies Look Like


• The Aggression Cluster


• The Exploitation Cluster


• The Narcissism Cluster


• Born in Alabama


• Daughter of a Beat


• The Pleasure She Derived


• Any Sadism Will Do


• How Can I Survive?


• Quixotic, Unclear Rules


• My Accomplishments Will Not Bring Me Happiness


• The Shaming Began


• An Empty Shell


• It Was a Pretty Typical Household


• Theft by Amphetamines


• They Dominate My Mind


• When I Felt Strong Enough


• So You Think That You’re Better Than Me?


• Snapshots of Consequences


• Eight Truths

• Create Physical Separation and Limit Contact


• Create Psychological Separation


• Practice Right Thinking


• Redesign Your Mind


• Grow Your Strength


• Enlist Allies


• Acknowledge Trauma


• Listen to Your Body


• Practice Calm Self-Awareness


• Practice Self-Care


• Stay Alert for Triggers


• Create a Support System


• Release Guilt and Shame


• Speak Up


• Honor Your Freedom


• Identify Your Life Purposes


• Live Your Life Purposes


• Dismiss Apologists


• Call Bullies on Their Behaviors


• Practice Resilience


• Think in Multiples


• The Authoritarian Wound Questionnaire

Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Dr. Duffy is a highly sought-after clinical psychologist, bestselling author, podcaster, certified life coach, and parenting and relationship expert. He has been working in his clinical practice with individuals, couples, teens, and families for nearly twenty-five years. Dr. Duffy’s refreshing and unique approach has provided the critical intervention and support needed to help thousands of individuals and families find their footing. Along with his clinical work, Dr. Duffy is the author of the number-one best-selling The Available Parent (Viva Editions, second edition released 2014). He is a frequent national media presence. He has been the regular parenting and relationship expert on Steve Harvey (with more than 75 appearances), and appears several times a month on WGN radio. He also appears frequently on other national and local television and radio outlets, and is cited regularly in national print and online publications. These include the Today show, Fox News, Chicago Tribune, Fox Good Day Chicago, The Jam, WGN-TV, the Morning Blend, NPR, the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Redbook, Time, Good Housekeeping, Men’s Health, Chicago Parent, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Wired, Parenting, Your Teen, Parents, Family Circle, Chicago Sun-Times, and Real Simple magazine, among many others. As noted, he is contributor to the Pear app and co-host of the podcast with Giuliana and Bill Rancic, consults on two films on teen anxiety, and co-host of a popular podcast, better, with his wife Julie. He is also a frequent guest on other parenting and self-help podcasts. Dr. Duffy lives outside Chicago with his wife Julie and son George.