Evidence-Based: A New Harbinger Psychology Podcast Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents with Lindsay C. Gibson, PhD
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May 3, 2022 
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Key Traits of Immature Parents
- Emotionally immature parents share traits like self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, poor self-reflection, and discomfort with emotional intimacy.
- These traits cause them to be emotionally unavailable and unable to engage deeply with their children.
Four Types of Immature Parents
- Lindsay categorizes emotionally immature parents into four types: emotional, driven, rejecting, and passive.
- Each type displays distinct behaviors affecting how they connect with their children, from emotional reactivity to detachment or passivity.
Parent Types Often Pair Complementarily
- Emotionally immature parents often appear in complementary pairs, frequently with one passive parent balancing a more reactive or rejecting one.
- Two parents of the same difficult type together tend to escalate dysfunction and conflict.