Adult Children: Alcoholic / Dysfunctional Families Hardcover – January 1, 2006

The best book for getting to the root of your problems. The ACA group supports you all the way!

We've all had dysfunction of some kind in our lives, right?I'm a senior now and wish I would have found this decades ago. This will flip your will to live if you've suffered from dysfunction, whether it was caused by alcoholism or not. This is the solution. It's the best self help book ever created. It's written by committees, not by one author. If you've been depressed, anxious, suffering, etc, please check it out! In five weeks of reading and meetings I am more hopeful than I've been in decades. There is no other like the ACA BRB! It's hard to put it down. There really is hope!

I am a psychologist and this book has helped so many of my patients.

It was of good quality and arrived exactly when they said. I am very pleased.

I believe our culture is mostly affected by some sort of family dysfunction and intergenerational trauma and if we grew up this way we recreate the reality we had as children (when we were not in control) in our relationships to the point of insanity, burn out, breakdown, etc. As a young educated white woman of privilege, I was lucky that my parents were sober and in AA before I was born, and I knew a lot about our family dysfunction before I was mature enough to really understand how profound the effect was. I’ve even been to counselors who KNOW my family background and they never pushed me to read this or attend ACA meetings. The concepts and teachings in this book are very accurate and describe in uncanny detail the way dysfunction affects you even if the type of dysfunction you experienced was not overt (substance abuse, physical abuse, etc.) or socially unacceptable. The best thing about the book is the emphasis on you taking accountability and focusing only on yourself.I’ve seen psychologists gain notoriety by just borrowing so many of these principles. I think people have a block or can’t get over the stigma of the 12-step relation, so maybe that’s for the masses. But, if you’re over being unhappy and sick of your own bullsh*! -even if you don’t think attending meetings is for you (I’m on the fence/haven’t been able to force myself over Zoom)- the book is amazing and I wish my parents had a copy around since they were adult children of alcoholics, too.

I always new I had relationship issues but thought they were external to me. By learning about the Adult Child syndrome and the effects of having a trauma related personality, it became clear this book held the keys to the kingdom.What didn’t realize until much later is that discovery is not recovery. In other words this book did a great job at revealing the problem and it’s causes, but it then went on to demonstrate how recovery from growing up in a dysfunctional family could be achieved. Many books by therapists all layout the problem very well, but in my experience only the program of ACA delivers the tools to recover from the dysfunction.This book has all of this information in it and can be studied in groups to obtain the clarity and emotional balance for living a very satisfying life. Highly recommend this book and the others that were written by actual adult children who worked the recovery process to heal from their trauma.

You use this for ACA

Very well written. Deep insightFound a meeting nearby to study it in a group setting.