What Do Mothers Want? (eBook, PDF)

Developmental Perspectives, Clinical Challenges
Redaktion: Brown, Sheila F.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What do mothers want and need from their parenting partners, their extended families, their friends, colleagues, and communities? And what can mental health professionals do to help them meet their daunting responsibilities in the contemporary world? The talented contributors to What Do Mothers Want? address these questions from perspectives that encompass differences in marital status, parental status, gender, and sexual orientation. Traversing the biological, psychological, cultural, and economic dimensions of mothering, they provide a compelling brief on the perplexing choices confronting mothers in the contemporary world.

Of course, mothers most basically want their children to be safe and healthy. But to this end they want and need many things: caring partners, intergenerational and community support, a responsive workplace, public services, and opportunities to share their experiences with other mothers. And they want their feelings and actions as mothers to be understood and accepted by those around them and by society at large. The role of psychotherapy in reaching these latter goals is taken up by many of the contributors. They reflect on the special psychological challenges of pregnancy, birth, and the arrival of a newborn into a couple's (whether hetero- or homosexual) life, and they address new venues of therapeutic assistance, such as brief low-cost therapy for at-risk mothers and infants and group interventions to help couples grow into the new role of parental couples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134912100
• Artikelnr.: 39265265

Autorenporträt

Sheila F. Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Brown
Introduction. Part I: What Mothers Want and Need.Stern
The Psychic Landscape of Mothers. Balsam
Loving and Hating Mothers and Daughters: Thoughts on the Role of Their Physicality. Benjamin
What Mothers and Babies Need: The Maternal Third and Its Presence in Clinical Work. Herzog
What Fathers Do and How They Do It. Ruddick
What Do Mothers and Grandmothers Know and Want? Drescher
Glazer
Crespi
& Schwartz
What Is a Mother? Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Parenting. Schwartz
It's A(p)Parent: New Family Narratives Needed. Gensler
Safran
What Does a Mother Want and Need from Her Child's Therapist? Part II: Women's Bodies: Choices and Dilemmas.Chodorow
"Too Late": Ambivalence about Motherhood
Choice
and Time. Kofman
Imber
Pregnancy. Rosen
Facts and Fantasies about Infertility. Petrucelli
Stuart
Layers upon Layers: The Complicated Terrain of Eating Disorders and the Mother-Child Relationship. Part III: Pulling It All Together.Lazarre
Listen to My Words: Maternal Life in Colors and Cycles of Time. Cowan
Cowan
To Be Partners and Parents: The Challenge for Couples Who Are Parents.