Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-daughter RelationshipThe anger and agony of the mother-daughter relationship can be replaced with a new bond based on understanding and respect according to Dr. Caplan. She shows women how to move to a new, positive mother-daughter relationship based on respect. |
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Page 5
I spent years seeing therapy patients before I realized how common mother-
blame is and how much damage it does. Mother-blame is as ... If the mother
herself was the patient, she was blamed for her own problems — "She's a
masochist" or ...
I spent years seeing therapy patients before I realized how common mother-
blame is and how much damage it does. Mother-blame is as ... If the mother
herself was the patient, she was blamed for her own problems — "She's a
masochist" or ...
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A psychotherapy patient reveals her most intimate feelings and her most
shameful secrets to her therapist. Her therapist learns things about her that no
one else has ever known. She goes to the therapist seeking help both to feel
better and to ...
A psychotherapy patient reveals her most intimate feelings and her most
shameful secrets to her therapist. Her therapist learns things about her that no
one else has ever known. She goes to the therapist seeking help both to feel
better and to ...
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We asked for those papers because we anticipated that we could learn
something from them about how psychiatrists are currently treating their therapy
patients and, we hoped, how they talk to patients about their mothers. We
received only ...
We asked for those papers because we anticipated that we could learn
something from them about how psychiatrists are currently treating their therapy
patients and, we hoped, how they talk to patients about their mothers. We
received only ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-daughter Relationship Perennial library |
| Author | Paula J. Caplan |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0060161027, 9780060161026 |
| Length | 258 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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