Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-daughter RelationshipA nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women shows how the angerand agony of the mother-daughter relationship can be replaced with a new bondbased on understanding and respect. |
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Mending the Mother-daughter Relationship Paula J. Caplan. a fraction of the
myths , they are often blamed for transmitting all . ) Seeing how this process
works makes it easier for us as mothers and daughters to become allies , to
refuse to be ...
Mending the Mother-daughter Relationship Paula J. Caplan. a fraction of the
myths , they are often blamed for transmitting all . ) Seeing how this process
works makes it easier for us as mothers and daughters to become allies , to
refuse to be ...
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Despite the unreasonableness of " overly dependent , " " fused " or " engulfing "
as descriptions of most mother - daughter relationships , the belief that mothers
and daughters cannot see themselves as separate from each other is pervasive .
Despite the unreasonableness of " overly dependent , " " fused " or " engulfing "
as descriptions of most mother - daughter relationships , the belief that mothers
and daughters cannot see themselves as separate from each other is pervasive .
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Jocelyn's father , he had not told them how to work out ways to enjoy their mother
- daughter relationship aside from the focus on the father . When I saw the mother
and daughter years later at a lecture I gave on mothers and daughters , they ...
Jocelyn's father , he had not told them how to work out ways to enjoy their mother
- daughter relationship aside from the focus on the father . When I saw the mother
and daughter years later at a lecture I gave on mothers and daughters , they ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-daughter Relationship Perennial library |
| Author | Paula J. Caplan |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1990 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 May 2011 |
| ISBN | 0060916974, 9780060916978 |
| Length | 258 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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