Torn In Two
Maternal Ambivalence
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New, revised edition of this bold and exciting book.
More and more women confess uneasily to finding motherhood as much a source of pain as pleasure. Rozsika Parker presents a new understanding of maternal ambivalence, suggesting that the coexistence of love and hate can stimulate and sharpen a mother's awareness of what is going on between her and her child. Drawing on interviews, clinical material from her practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a range of literary sources, Torn in Two is original and accessible. With new readings of the work of Klein, Winnicott, Bowlby and others, this book offers invaluable - and often reassuring - insight into the conflicts confronting women at every stage of motherhood.
More and more women confess uneasily to finding motherhood as much a source of pain as pleasure. Rozsika Parker presents a new understanding of maternal ambivalence, suggesting that the coexistence of love and hate can stimulate and sharpen a mother's awareness of what is going on between her and her child. Drawing on interviews, clinical material from her practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a range of literary sources, Torn in Two is original and accessible. With new readings of the work of Klein, Winnicott, Bowlby and others, this book offers invaluable - and often reassuring - insight into the conflicts confronting women at every stage of motherhood.
- Published: Sep 01 2005
- Pages: 352
- 198 x 126mm
- ISBN: 9781844081714
Press Reviews
- Juliet Mitchell
TORN IN TWO is a major and novel contribution to our understanding of the complexities of motherhood with implications that branch out in many directions
- IRISH TIMES
Gripping stuff.
- THE TIMES
Her book may help reassure other mothers that they are not alone in experiencing such bewildering, contradictory emotions towards their children.
- SELF AND SOCIETY
A very rich book full of case material.