Dysfunctional Families

* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship...

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable....

Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace. Now imagine there's a man who can take care of all that, who has no respect for the living, who will do anything...

A Predators’ Paradise is a raw, honest account of Glen’s life. He was born into violence and addiction. His mother was addicted to drugs and alcohol and had mental health issues as well as a propensity to violence with her husband and children.

Diego's Story is the thirteenth instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children series.

'They made me do it, it wasn't my fault!' When three brothers come to live with Maggie, she knows that it's going to be challenging. They are all already struggling with rejection after their dad abandoned them, their mum having died several years before. While four-year-old Billy is a delight...

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty - by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to...

Co-written by the writer of Sunday Times bestsellers The Asylum, The Convent, Silent Sisters and Abandoned, this is the harrowing emotional story of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a father.

The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist is the most comprehensive and helpful audiobook on the topic of covert narcissism. This type of narcissism is one of the most damaging forms because the abuse is so hidden and so insidious....

Why do some people manipulate, exploit, and harm with chilling consistency—while others, even when raised in the same environment, do not?

Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew. Raised for vastly different futures, one burdened with the responsibility of becoming the...

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves...

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met or dismissed—and you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, and abandonment....

Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. To her family's fury, Shazia is sent to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley whilst social...

In her brand-new series Thrown Away Children, Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother. The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true story of a young girl scarred by an abusive past....

Following her disastrous first year in the adult world, it's hard to imagine how seventeen-year-old Keri's life could possibly get any worse. However, as anyone who's ever been down can attest to, getting back up can often be difficult without a helping hand....

Dave Pelzer was brutally abused as a child by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She considered him a slave - no longer a boy, but an "it".

Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines–the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today.

A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world.

Groomed and procured by a woman, raped by several men and labelled ‘one of the most abused girl in Rotherham’, now Elizabeth Harper is fighting for answers as to why so many people paid to protect our children simply turned a blind eye. Aged just 15, lonely and bullied by her peers...

In this compassionate guide you'll find tips and tools to help you set boundaries with others, honor and validate your emotions, and thrive in the face of life's challenges....

If you're constantly feeling on edge, forever working to appease your spouse to little avail and feel like you're constantly being chipped away at with their abusive behavior, then I can understand how emotionally shattering it feels to live this way....

By the age of 13, vulnerable Sheffield teenager Samantha Owens had fallen through the cracks in the care system. Bounced around numerous foster carers after her home life became too chaotic, Samantha thought she had found a friend in the streetwise Amanda Spencer....

In this gut-wrenching account of her early life, author Kat Ward takes the listener through every shade of darkness, whilst never allowing the candle of hope to fully extinguish, so as that truth may indeed find its rightful freedom.

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

Diego and his siblings live in desperate poverty, but nobody seems to notice or care as they come close to starving, scouring food banks to survive. But he’s wrong–someone has noticed him. County Lines gang members can see his vulnerability. With an absent father, alcoholic mother and dependent young siblings, Diego is the perfect mark.

'They made me do it, it wasn't my fault!' When three brothers come to live with Maggie, she knows that it's going to be challenging. They are all already struggling with rejection after their dad abandoned them, their mum having died several years before. While four-year-old Billy is a delight...

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves...

The complete three works of Ben Cole-Edwards. A powerful exploration of childhood trauma, narcissistic parenting, and emotional reprogramming. This audiobook gives you the clarity and validation you never received growing up and shows you how to reclaim your peace.

Understand your childhood, reclaim your power and create a future free from the patterns of the past. Break free from the patterns of emotionally immature parenting. If you’ve ever felt unseen, like you weren’t good enough, or that your struggles don’t quite fit into books about childhood...

From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son’s obsessive quest to uncover them, and ultimately, the true meaning of manhood...

Dieses Hörbuch ist dein ultimativer Schutzschild. Es bündelt tiefenpsychologisches Expertenwissen mit praktischen Strategien, um die Mechanismen der Dunklen Psychologie zu durchschauen und souverän zu kontern. In einer Welt voller subtiler Beeinflussung ist Menschenkenntnis keine Option, sondern eine Überlebensstrategie. Dieses Hörbuch liefert dir nicht nur Theorie, sondern ein praktisches Werkzeugset für Erfolg und Freiheit.

In this memoir, Amanda walks us through her adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s), and traumatic adulthood to provide a clear picture that it is never too late regardless of the circumstances, if you have breath, there is hope!

For fans of Educated and Invisible Child, David Sussillo combines memoir and cutting-edge neuroscience to tell the story of his unlikely journey from group homes and drug-addicted parents to the scientific elite—exploring why, and how, he managed to succeed against all odds. David Sussillo has...

Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman's solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she's resilient at mid-life. Finding the love and intimacy she craves, she can, at last, forgive her dying father—and her mom, for her decades of silence.

Quante volte nella vita accade di amare senza essere ricambiati. E, viceversa, quante volte si crede di amare qualcuno, ma il rapporto naufraga in pochi mesi. Relazioni narcisistiche, dipendenti, manipolative, violente. Dubbi, frustrazioni, false aspettative si affollano nella nostra mente. Le esperienze passate, poi, possono essere talmente ingombranti da impedirci di vivere in modo positivo il presente. Con il risultato che il fallimento è spesso dietro l'angolo.

Parenting a teen with ADHD and anxiety can feel overwhelming. The mood swings, the anger outbursts, the shutdowns, the constant tension at home. You're not failing! You're facing a neurological and emotional challenge that requires the right tools.

From the leading expert on adult children of addicts, an essential guide to healing wounds of growing up with addiction and family dysfunction “Required reading for understanding the full picture of recovery, repair, and reclaiming our true selves.”—Aimie Apigian, MD, author of The Biology...

Leaving a narcissistic relationship doesn’t bring instant relief. It brings silence, confusion, and a strange ache you can’t explain. You replay conversations. You wonder if you overreacted. You grieve someone who never really existed while your body stays tense, hyper-alert, and exhausted. Friends say “just move on,” but your nervous system didn’t get the memo. That’s not a weakness. That’s a trauma bond unraveling.

You can’t control the narcissist—but you can control the outcome. This workbook is your roadmap to clarity, confidence, and peace through the storm. Divorcing a narcissist isn’t your average breakup—it’s like starring in a one-person drama where the script keeps changing, and you’re left wondering if you’re losing your mind.