Such feelings are particularly scary for mothers, and Dr. In a society where perfection in parenting is the unattainable ideal, this compassionate book also shows how women can affect positive change in their lives.įrom the Back Cover Psychoanalysis has always addressed the monster within: conflicts, fears, and those unacceptable feelings of anger, envy, and hatred with which we all grapple. She uncovers the roots of ambivalence, tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children, and describes a spectrum of maternal behavior-from normal feelings to highly disturbed mothering. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond brings this troubling issue to light. This is essential reading for mothers, in psychotherapy or not, for fathers, and for therapists, including male therapists who will become better able to see women's bodies and motherhood from a woman's perspective."-Stanley Coen, M.D., author of "Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst"īook Synopsis Mixed feelings about motherhood-uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children-are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. Her evocative clinical and literary stories make ambivalence a bit easier for mothers to bear. "Barbara Almond's book is a wonderful new resource for helping mothers, especially new mothers, to tolerate that love between them and their children must be burdened by resentment. This book is enormously useful to mothers, clinicians and anyone else interested in the psychology of motherhood."-Daphne de Marneffe, author of "Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life" Almond's fresh insights and perspectives regarding maternal ambivalence help us to become more comfortable with these feelings. ""The Monster Within" is a gripping book. Chodorow, author of "The Reproduction of Mothering" Her expertly presented material provides the lively underpinning of this compelling book."-Nancy J.
"The Monster Within" presents richly nuanced and detailed cases that give the reader a sense of what these difficult feelings of ambivalence are, as they are experienced day to day, consciously and unconsciously. Barbara Almond, an experienced psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, shows us how and why this is so. About the Book "Psychoanalysis has always addressed the monster within: conflicts, fears, and those unacceptable feelings of anger, envy, and hatred with which we all grapple.
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