Perinatal Mental Health is an invaluable reference for nurses, midwives and other health professionals working with this client group, covering current thinking on the causes of mothers' mood disorders and the consequences for her infant, the family, society and most importantly…
Not all men feel rivalry with their fathers to vie for love of their mothers. In some families mother becomes central figure for her son. A silent pact between mother and son leads to denial of differences, specifically between gender and generation. The author calls this mother…
Not all men vie with their fathers for the love of their mothers. In some families the mother becomes the central figure for her son - the father is excluded (or excludes himself) and does not come between mother and son. The main thesis of this book - using clinical vignettes a…
Not all men vie with their fathers for the love of their mothers. In some families the mother becomes the central figure for her son - the father is excluded (or excludes himself) and does not come between mother and son. The main thesis of this book - using clinical vignettes a…
How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? When this is the question of an empirical research project, it poses methodological challenges: how can research bring to light such experience, and how can identity change be documente…
How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? When this is the question of an empirical research project, it poses methodological challenges: how can research bring to light such experience, and how can identity change be documente…
Was your mother too busy, too tired, or too checked-out to provide you with the nurturing you needed as a child? Men and women who were?undermothered? as children often struggle with intimate relationships, in part because of their unmet need for maternal care. The Emotionally A…
Anderson's Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration shows women how to emotionally separate from their difficult mothers without guilt and anxiety so they can finally create a life based on their own values, desires, needs, and prefere…
An essay about culture and feminism argues that human culture simultaneously romaticizes and vilifies mothers, making them into a scapegoat for all failings.
Social punishment -- Now -- Then -- Psychic blindness -- Loving -- Hating -- The agony and the ecstasy -- Elena Ferrante -- Inside-out -- Coda -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.
An essay about culture and feminism argues that human culture simultaneously romaticizes and vilifies mothers, making them into a scapegoat for all failings.
"Twenty stories on contemporary motherhood. In Kate Braverman's Pagan Night, a mother debates whether to kill her unwanted child, while in Perri Klass' For Women Everywhere, a pregnant woman declines to be a tattletale by identifying the father." -- (Source of summary not specif…