The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship [Paperback]

Linda Schierse Leonard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 12, 1983

An invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and those of her clients, Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of the spirit that arrives from the father-daughter relationship.

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"[An] elegant and profoundly original vision of feminine psychology. A revelation for men, an inspiration for women, it offers all of us the chance to break the bitter cycle."—Alan Rinzler, The San Francisco Chronicle. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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An invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and those of her clients, Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of the spirit that arrives from the father-daughter relationship.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 179 pages
• Publisher: Shambhala; Edition Unstated edition (October 12, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394721837
• ISBN-13: 978-0394721835
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,137,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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102 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An authentic picture of the feminine, June 5, 1999

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This review is from: The Wounded Woman (Paperback)

The reader from Houston would be advised to start thinking about the teachings of this book while she's doing her laundry. She might then find it deeper and more satisfying than her cursory reading of it implies. If it's true that the best books lead us onto other books, then this one passes the test with great generosity: I have already compiled an expanded reading (and film viewing) list from its pages. But it's more than that - a way for a woman to look at herself and the patterns of her life with a balance of emotion and detachment. It does not give easy and quick-fix solutions to what are, after all, heart-wrenching and ingrained problems, but a way towards transformation, towards breaking the negative patterns. On my first reading this book nearly broke me with its clear insights and wise compassion. How could a woman I don't know, half a world away, know so much about me? But it gave me the motivation to dig deeper and wider, and the eyes to see not only myself, my relationship with my father and with men, my creativity, but also my mother, my sisters, my friends. The use of myth - in fairy-tales, legends, novels and films - lends a strong intellectual framework to the book without sacrificing the emotional content, while the author's clinical experience and anecdotes from her own life places it firmly in the lives of real women. The author has done what many men say women cannot do: widen the perspective to embrace the large picture as well as zoom in on the details. I can't recommend this book enough, to men as well as women. Intelligent, perceptive, and emotionally mature.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An archetypal look at the father-daughter relationship., July 18, 1997

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This review is from: The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship (Paperback)

Leonard writes of the wounds of fathers and how they wound daughters. I found this book illuminating for my own understanding of my self and my father. It helped me to develop compassion for my father and it helped me to move out of my own wounding. I recommend this book for any woman searching to understand the source of her angst

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smart, realistic, and honest, December 13, 2000

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Clea Simon "avid reader" (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wounded Woman (Paperback)

What I loved about this book was that unlike so many other books on father-daughter relationships this one did not oversimplify. Too many other books try to blame the father or blame the daughter and to squeeze us all into clear, but inaccurate roles. Linda Schierse Leonard recognizes that we are not always the same, that we are all actors as well as acted upon, and helps make our choices and their consequences clear. Brava!