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Page 4
They tend to look at pregnancy and birth as abnormal conditions producing all
kinds of pathological psychic states ... The psychoanalytic frame of reference
tends to include mothers only as individuals who act on the child for good or ill ,
as ...
They tend to look at pregnancy and birth as abnormal conditions producing all
kinds of pathological psychic states ... The psychoanalytic frame of reference
tends to include mothers only as individuals who act on the child for good or ill ,
as ...
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Perhaps this is why mothers tend to ' compare the products ' and to look
anxiously at their own baby ' s weight , or skin condition , the number of teeth , or
whether it is sitting up or crawling yet , feeling that this kind of thing can show
whether ...
Perhaps this is why mothers tend to ' compare the products ' and to look
anxiously at their own baby ' s weight , or skin condition , the number of teeth , or
whether it is sitting up or crawling yet , feeling that this kind of thing can show
whether ...
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Mothers tend to identify with their own mothers . They also tend spontaneously to
recreate patterns of child care which they may consciously reject , finding
themselves , nevertheless , doing things in much the same way . Helene Deutsch
said ...
Mothers tend to identify with their own mothers . They also tend spontaneously to
recreate patterns of child care which they may consciously reject , finding
themselves , nevertheless , doing things in much the same way . Helene Deutsch
said ...
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Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 27 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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| Title | Women as Mothers |
| Author | Sheila Kitzinger |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Random House, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0394506510, 9780394506517 |
| Length | 239 pages |
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