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Horrible Mothers - Breach of a Sacred Trust (Hardcover)
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Horrible Mothers - Breach of a Sacred Trust (Hardcover)
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This seemingly simple but truly complex question" True or false:
"My mother was a good woman." This item has appeared in one form or
another on countless psychological inventories over the years. The
culturally-prescribed answer is, of course, "True." Even the people
most abused by their mothers tend to rise to defend "Mom." The
rationale varies: "She was basically good"; "She was never cut out
to have children"; "She simply had no idea how to be there for me";
"Perhaps if she hadn't had me..."; "Maybe it was I who turned her
into a bad mother?" As early as 1954 in his work with abused
children, psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn observed that a child
acknowledging to herself or anyone else that she had a bad mother
or that her mother was a bad woman was tantamount to admitting that
the child was, by association, a bad person --and so it becomes an
act of self-preservation to hold that one's mopther is good, never
mind all evidence to the contrary. In Horrible Mothers,
pshychotherapist Alice Thie Vieira takes us into the world of
individuals who have endured devastating damage at the hands of
society's most sacrosanst icon: the Mother. Vieira does so with
four chief aims: 1. to label abuse so as to be able to acknowledge
it; 2. to recognize that the sanctification of motherhood is a
burden that society has foisted upon them; 3. to help mothers
understand how their mothering may have hurt their children; 4. to
help victims of horrible mothering grasp the unfairness of what was
done to them, to comprehend how it affected their lives, and
acknowledge what they have endured so as to break free from
unhealthy attachments to their inadequate mothers, and thus move
forward and better realize their potentiality.
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