Welldon explores why the quality of their bodies is fundamental to women's psychology; how this may lead to self-mutilation; and how such perverse behavior may also be aimed at objects which women see as their own creations, specifically, their babies. The potential causes and consequences of these conditions, including maternal and paternal incest and its frequent aftermath, prostitution, are also discussed.
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This book, first published in 1988, is the first serious clinical research of the enormous psychological conflicts and difficulties confronted by some women when becoming mothers. As opposed to find the expected and stereotyped rewards of motherhood they are faced with inadequacy, later on replaced by irritation, despair, helplesssness and a sense of isolation when unable to provide their babies with their increasing demands. It is then that mothers overreact, experiencing hostility that could even become physically vengeful against those who they love the most: their own babies. Furthermore, in feeling inadequate as mothers, they are unable to confide to anyone those horrid desires feeling they are "freaks". This book provides useful information on how to give a voice and a hearing to these suffering women, their babies and those working in the caring professions. It should be widely read and highly recomended for the fuller understanding of the complexities of women's sexuality in the cliched current splits of sexuality and motherhood.
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...this book had a profound affect upon my atteitude towards the psychology of motherhood. As a training counselling student, this book is easy to read and the author's comments are easy understood - if not easy to digest.
Thoroughly recommended to those seeking an opinion on motherhood from a counselling/psychotherapy perspective.
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I found this book facinating. Written by a psichotherapist who has obviously had much experience of dealing with "hard case" personnas, it shows most intriguing, almost disturbing, conclusions on the way some mothers and their kin relate and behave. Extreme cases are always good to then extrapolate and detect more subtle traits in normal everyday people, including ourselves! It definately made ME get into an "auto-therapy" mood. Not trained in psychiatry myself, I was engulfed by this book which has minimized the use of technical terms and is within easy reach of non-experts as myself.
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