Helps women of all ages deal with the inevitable and exasperating situations that continue to arise between mothers and daughters with advice on how to stop perpetuating non-productive communication patterns. 30,000 first printing. Tour.
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In this provocatively titled self-help book, psychotherapists Cocola and Matthews ( Why Did I Marry You, Anyway? ) contend that even professionally successful women, among those of all ages and backgrounds they interviewed, fail to relate positively to their mothers. After offering up a horrendous gallery of maternal styles--chronically anxious, hypercritical, competitive, etc.--the authors advocate methods for dealing with all, starting with the gradual creation of a flexible "optimum distance" between mother and daughter and evolving a relationship to accommodate other family members and events in their respective lives. While these strategies--some are pat--may or may not succeed in "managing" a mother, the authors' theory of an "internalized maternal" voice dooms the poor daughters to be "wired" forever to a "Mother Within" whom they must also learn to manage, lest she dominate them even after the actual mother's passing. First serial to McCall's; Literary Guild and Psychotherapy Book Club alternates; author tour.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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