Mothering Without a Map: The Search for the Good Mother With

ISBN: 0143034863

Author: Black, Kathryn

Condition: new

Every woman longs to be a good mother. But what about those women who grew up undermothered-whose own mothers were well-meaning but unavailable, absent, distracted, or depressed? How are they to become the good mothers they aspire to be?In this beautifully articulate book, Kathryn Black, whose own mothers early death inspired her award-winning In the Shadow of Polio, offers affirming news: One doesnt have to have had a good mother to become one. Probing for answers from experts in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, social work, biology, and other disciplines, Black reveals that there are other paths to discovering the good mother within. This moving and powerful book shows how wounded daughters can become healing mothers who give their own children a legacy of security, happiness, and love.On the web: http://www.motheringwithoutamap.com