Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification

Why do some of us grow up too soon and spend a lifetime caring for others at the cost of ourselves? In this deeply humane study, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet explores parentification: the invisible role reversal in which children become their parents' caretakers, confidants, or even partners.Blending vivid clinical portraits, psychoanalytic depth and literary sensibility, Kinet traces...