Mothering Without a Map

The Search for the Good Mother Within

Kathryn Black

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English

Puffin
22 February 2005

Psychology; Family & relationships; Advice on parenting

Every woman longs to be a good mother. But what about those women who grew up ""undermothered""-whose own mothers were well-meaning but unavailable, absent, distracted, or depressed? How are they to become the good mothers they aspire to be?

In this beautifully articulate book, Kathryn Black, whose own mother's early death inspired her award-winning In the Shadow of Polio, offers affirming news- One doesn't have to have had a good mother to become one. Probing for answers from experts in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, social work, biology, and other disciplines, Black reveals that there are other paths to discovering the good mother within. This moving and powerful book shows how ""wounded daughters"" can become ""healing mothers"" who give their own children a legacy of security, happiness, and love.

On the web-http-//www.motheringwithoutamap.com

By: Kathryn Black
Imprint: Puffin
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 219g
ISBN: 9780143034865
ISBN 10: 0143034863
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 February 2005
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathryn Black, a journalist for twenty years, is the author of In the Shadow of Polio, named by the Boston Globe as one of the ten best 1996 nonfiction works, winner of the Colorado Book Award for literary nonfiction, the June Roth Book Award for Health and Medical Writing, and a Denver Post bestseller. Black was named 1997 Author of the Year by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Reviews for Mothering Without a Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within

"Kathryn Black writes with personal and professional authority about an important topic. Shes an excellent writer with fresh, positive ideas. (Mary Pipher, author of ""Reviving Ophelia"")"