Mothering Without a Map

The Search for the Good Mother Within

By: Kathryn Black

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Paperback | 22 February 2005 | Edition Number 1

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304 Pages

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Every woman longs to be a good mother. But what about those women who grew up aundermotheredaawhose 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 motheras early death inspired her award-winning "In the Shadow of Polio," offers affirming news: One doesnat 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 awounded daughtersa can become ahealing mothersa who give their own children a legacy of security, happiness, and love.

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Kathryn Black writes with personal and professional authority about an important topic. Shes an excellent writer with fresh, positive ideas. (Mary Pipher, author of "Reviving Ophelia")

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