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Torn In Two: Maternal Ambivalence

Torn In Two: Maternal Ambivalence

by RozsikaParker (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $7.80
Synopsis

New, revised edition of this bold and exciting book.

More and more women confess uneasily to finding motherhood as much a source of pain as pleasure. Rozsika Parker presents a new understanding of maternal ambivalence, suggesting that the coexistence of love and hate can stimulate and sharpen a mother's awareness of what is going on between her and her child. Drawing on interviews, clinical material from her practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a range of literary sources, Torn in Two is original and accessible. With new readings of the work of Klein, Winnicott, Bowlby and others, this book offers invaluable - and often reassuring - insight into the conflicts confronting women at every stage of motherhood.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 01 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 1844081710
ISBN 13: 9781844081714

Media Reviews
TORN IN TWO is a major and novel contribution to our understanding of the complexities of motherhood with implications that branch out in many directions * Juliet Mitchell *
Gripping stuff. * IRISH TIMES *
Her book may help reassure other mothers that they are not alone in experiencing such bewildering, contradictory emotions towards their children. * THE TIMES *
A very rich book full of case material. * SELF AND SOCIETY *
Author Bio
Rozsika Parker is a psychotherapist in practice in London where she lives with her children. She has had books published in the fields of art history and psychoanalysis.