{"product_id":"the-favorite-child-how-a-favorite-impacts-every-family-member-for-life-paperback","title":"The Favorite Child: How a Favorite Impacts Every Family Member for Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Weber Libby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than thirty years, veteran clinical psychologist Ellen Weber Libby has been helping successful, often-powerful clients in Washington, DC-a place known for its outsized personalities-deal with their personal problems. One pattern that has emerged out of some 60,000 hours of therapy is what she calls \"the favorite child complex.\" In this groundbreaking book, she describes in intimate detail how being the favorite child can confer both great advantages and also significant emotional handicaps.While many of Dr. Libby's clients are successful because of their favorite-child status-they have been brought up to believe that they can do anything and are unafraid of challenges- they suffer from an array of personality problems. Behind the outward appearance of money, power, charm, and attractive looks, they feel an intense pressure to maintain the façade at all costs. Sometimes their ability to tell the truth becomes shaky; sometimes their intimate relationships are elusive. In a series of chapters that offer insightful vignettes from actual therapy sessions (the identities of clients are disguised), Dr. Libby explores why parents, consciously or unconsciously, choose a favorite child, as well as the long-term effects of being the favorite son or daughter of either or both parents. She also discusses family situations where parents have successfully made each of their children feel favored and have instilled in their children a healthy emotional balance. She details parental skills and family processes that increase the likelihood of this type of success and that, most importantly, reduce the risk of the favorite child's curse-power corrupted. Illuminating for adults trying to come to terms with their own emotional baggage as well as parents seeking the best way to rear their children, The Favorite Child makes for rewarding reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Weber Libby, PhD (Annapolis, MD), is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice in Washington, DC, for over thirty years. Her professional experience includes the position \u003cbr\u003eof clinical director of a mental health center serving a three-county region and service on the faculty at \u003cbr\u003ethe University of Maryland where she had significant responsibility for clinical training \u003cbr\u003eof students. Dr. Libby writes a blog for Psychology Today called \"The Favorite Child\": http: \/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-favorite-child\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.92 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47202591015014,"sku":"9781591027621","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/uoOajWGaQ29781591027621.webp?v=1789681844","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-favorite-child-how-a-favorite-impacts-every-family-member-for-life-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}