This new text by Nina Brown makes clear the impact of self-absorbed parents and offers some useful techniques about what to do about them. Written in an easily accessible and commonsense tone, ["Children of the Aging Self-Absorbed" has] something to offer for those with relatively little background in psychology and human development theory, as well as those with considerable experience. Brown takes the reader through the basics of coping with a problem that is faced by a good deal of the early, middle, and later adult population. This text is a useful and practical review of the issues involved with parent-child dynamics in the adulthood years and provides some solid structure for describing, categorizing, and responding to these issues in an effective manner. Joshua M. Gross, PhD, ABPP, CGP, psychologist and director of group programs at The University Counseling Center at Florida State University, where he practices group and family psychology as well as trains and supervises doctoral and post-doctoral trainees"

Nina W. Brown, EdD, LPC, is a professor and eminent scholar of counseling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She received her doctorate from The College of William and Mary, is a past president of the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy, and a current commissioner for the American Psychological Association's Commission on Accreditation. Brown is the author of 27 books on group therapy and narcissism.