Description Part 1: Understanding and Accepting the Inner Child Chapter 1: Who Is the Inner Child? 9 Chapter 2: Why Do We Experience Emotional Turmoil? 19 Chapter 3: How Does the Inner Child Affect Adult Life? 29 Chapter 4: How Our Attitudes Toward Childhood Lead Us Astray 42 Chapter 5: When the Inner Child Becomes Ingrained 57 Chapter 6: Are You Experiencing Inner Conflict? 73 Chapter 7: A Marriage Requires Four People 80 Chapter 8: Areas of Conflict: Money, Sex, and Recreation 93 Chapter 9: What Kind of Child Were You? 110 Part 2: Excessive Parental Attitudes — How Are They Affecting You Now? Chapter 10: Perfectionism — If You Feel You Must Always Try to Do Better 129 Chapter 11: Coercion — If You Can't Shake the Habit of Procrastination 156 Chapter 12: Overindulgence — If You Are Demanding and Impulsive 193 Chapter 13: Neglect — If You Get Bored Easily and Can't Persevere 226 Chapter 14: Health Anxiety — If You Are Always Worried About Your Health 269 Chapter 15: Retribution — If You Keep Trying to Get Even for the Past 306 Chapter 16: Abandonment — If You Feel a Lack of Belonging or Difficulty Belonging 368 Chapter 17: Rejection — If You Try Hard to Isolate Yourself 420 Chapter 18: Sexual Stimulation — If You Seem to Misjudge the Role of Sexuality 442 Part 3: Changing Yourself and Your Life Chapter 19: Becoming a New Parent to Yourself 481