Your Inner Child of the Past [Mass Market Paperback]

W Missildine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1991

Based on the groundbreaking bestseller that pointed therapy in a new direction. Missildine tells how to seek the inner child, identify how the inner child shapes behavior, and create ways to integrate the inner child into the adult personality.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket (September 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671747037
• ISBN-13: 978-0671747039
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #368,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful view of how parental attitudes effect you., December 29, 1998

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P. Rieser - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Inner Child of the Past (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is excellent as an adjunct to the therapy process. It offers clear insights into how one's past, particularly parental attitudes, effects your functioning today. It also offers practical suggestions for antidotes to some of the problems discussed.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Self-Parenting Book, May 21, 2007

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Carmen Matthews "The Serene Samurai" (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Inner Child of the Past (Mass Market Paperback)

Recently, I was asked what my three favorite non-fiction books are.

Based upon what I've read during what I still call as both the most challenging yet most rewarding times in my life, my answer was, "The Power of Purpose," by Richard Leider, "My Mother/Myself," by Nancy Friday, and "I Ain't Much Baby - But I'm All I've Got," by Jess Lair, Ph.d.

I had somehow forgotten about "Your Inner Child of the Past," although I in retrospect, especially having just re-read it, I must say that I owe credit to my having started on my quest to find my life's person and to study human behavior, to my having read "Your Inner Child of the Past," at least 3 times, just after college, when I asked myself, "Okay. What do I know now? And how has a formal education given me the tools that I need?"

When I first read this book many years ago, I took copious notes, and actually typed them out.

Reading those notes, after all of these years, I can see how much I've grown, based upon being ready for the questions and answers that rose up from within me, as I read this book.

Now, having just re-read this book, I have less new notes, but the questions that I've honed in on, during this read, and have answered are:

1. What did I do to win their approval?
2. What was their attitude if I did something well?
3. How did they express disapproval?
4. What did they disapprove of?
5. What children did they want me to play with? Why?
6. What was my father's attitude towards me?
7. How did it differ from my mother's attitude?
8. When did I first get any money to spend?
9. When did I feel most dressed up?
10. What was my mother's main worry?
11. What was considered "bad?"
12. What was considered fun?
13. What did my folks tell me about their childhoods?
14. Did I ever play hooky? Why or why not?
15. Was my family religious?
16. What was my family's attitude toward sex?
17. What topics were forbidden to be discussed?
18. What was my parents' attitude about my growing up and marrying?
19. What was my parents' attitude about children towards their parents?
20. Do I remember defying them? (Ha!!!)
21. How differently am I parenting myself, as an adult, than how my
parents parented me, as a child? Is there a difference?

These are excellent questions to take the time to not only think through, but to also write detailed answers to, because they show how you are parenting yourself now, based upon whether or not you are allowing your adult-self, or your "inner child of the past," control your self-concept.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE OTHER "YOU" ... WITHIN, June 13, 2001

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Nikki (REDONDO BEACH, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Inner Child of the Past (Audio Cassette)

HAVING READ THIS BOOK WAYYYY BACK IN APPROXIMATELY 1982ISH - I HAVE HAD SO VERY MANY PEOPLE WANTING TO BORROW IT I CANNOT - FOR THE LIFE OF ME - FIGURE OUT WHO BORROWED IT LAST AND NEVER RETURNED IT TO ME :( ...

IT WAS A BOOK TO REMEMBER ALWAYS ... HOW WE MUST NEVER FORGET OUR INNER CHILD (WITHIN)... HOW OFTEN TIMES WE GET SO VERY WRAPPED UP IN OUR "DAILY LIVES" ... AND WE STUMBLE HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE ... AND WE HAVE GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS ... ONE "LOSES" HER/HIMSELF ... AND THE HURT LITTLE CHILD (WITHIN) SEEKS ATTENTION ... CRAVES ATTENTION ... YET RARELY RECEIVES IT -HENCE - IT GETS "LOST IN THE CROWD" - FORGOTTEN :(

WHEN WE ARE IN OUR BED - WITH OUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER - IT'S NOT MERELY THE TWO OF US - BUT THE FOUR OF US ... HE AND HIS INNER CHILD AND I AND MY INNER CHILD - IT BECOMES QUITE COMPLEX - OUR OUTBURSTS ARE OFTEN TIMES THE CHILD WITHIN - AND NOT THE ADULT US - AS WE SO OFTEN THINK IT IS ...

I'M SEARCHING FOR A COPY OF THIS BOOK (IN SPANISH?) FOR A FRIEND OF MINE (A VERY SPIRITUAL HEALER FRIEND - MY PERSPECTIVE RE HER HEALING POWERS) ... BOOKSTORES DON'T HAVE IT - IT'S OUT OF PRINT - HENCE I MUST SEEK OTHER SOURCES - FOR A "USED" COPY ...

IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT I FIND ONE - FOR HER INNER CHILD IS "CRAVING" THIS BOOK FILLED WITH WORDS OF WISDOM ...

TO ALL WHO CHOOSE TO READ THIS REVIEW - AND THEN TO SEARCH FOR A COPY OF THIS BOOK - G-D BLESS - AND MAY G-D BLESS YOU WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF WHATEVER IT IS YOU WISH FOR YOURSELF :)