Dee Anna Parrish is a psychiatric social worker with extensive experience in individual, couple, and family counseling. She specializes in working with adults who were raised in dysfunctional families—children of alcoholics, children of physical, sexual, verbal, and emotional abusers, and children of parents who abused through neglect and deprivation. Ms. Parrish is currently in private practice in Dallas and is affiliated with Human Affairs International. She is the author of Abused: A Recovery Guide for Adult Survivors of Physical/Emotional Abuse. She lives in Dallas, Texas.