From the author of A Wedding in the Family, Annette Byford
continues her examination of how mothers experience life changes in
family contexts and how it impacts their sense of who they are. The
book picks up the theme of family transitions and moves it to the
wider focus of what happens to a family when children grow up and
leave home, and the particular challenges this phase brings.
Becoming a mother is not just a question of learning how to bring
up a child - it brings a profound change of identity. The same
happens years later, when children leave home and the job is,
supposedly, 'done.' The author draws on her own experiences, both
personal and professional, to discuss how mothers negotiate this
change. She includes material from interviews with mothers and
looks at these experiences against the background of analytic
psychotherapy and family therapy. Also included is an exploration
of images and depictions of mothers-in-law, grandmothers etc in
literature and media, along with several, illustrative short
stories on the theme of mothers and their adult children.
Throughout the book there are discussions about what constitutes a
successful or unsuccessful transition. This title will appeal to
readers, mainly mothers, who are over fifty and interested in
psychological processes in families, who may well have read books
on childcare when their children were young, but who find
themselves unprepared for this stage of motherhood.
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