Prophecy Coles: The Shadow of the "Second Mother": Nurses and nannies in theories of infant development. The Shadow of the "Second Mother" explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that 'second mo…
"Prophecy Coles: The Shadow of the "Second Mother": Nurses and nannies in theories of infant development. The Shadow of the "Second Mother" explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that 'second m…
"Prophecy Coles: The Shadow of the "Second Mother": Nurses and nannies in theories of infant development. The Shadow of the "Second Mother" explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that 'second m…
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of fa…
One family's extraordinary experiences with their young daughter's ability to communicate with spirits, and the inspirational lessons learnt on their journey. Claire Waters has two young children, Faith and Tom. When the children were 4 and 2 years old respectively, Claire learn…
One family's extraordinary experiences learning about their young daughter's ability to communicate with spirits, and inspirational lessons learnt on their journey so far.
"From a bracingly beautiful new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image. Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned a breathtaking tribute to the joy and pain of…
"Olivia Donatelli's dream of a 'normal life' shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. He didn't speak. He hated to be touched. He almost never made eye contact. And just as Olivia was starting to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, An…
A leading feminist, Chesler writes openly and candidly of her experiences, at age thirty-seven, of pregnancy and motherhood and her attempts to understand just what she is looking for in the child she has brought into the world.
"Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflecting look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is internalized by the infant and reverberates through its later life. Mary Ayers further expands…
Brings together theoretical interpretations of shame with clinical studies and integrates major concepts from psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, developmental psychology and anthropology. The result is a broad understanding of shame and why it may underlie a wide range of clinica…
"Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflecting look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is internalized by the infant and reverberates through its later life. Mary Ayers further expands…