Her evocative clinical and literary stories make ambivalence a bit easier for mothers to bear. This is essential readingīarbara Almond's book is a wonderful new resource for helping mothers, especially new mothers, to tolerate that love between them and their children must be burdened by resentment. This book is enormously useful to mothers, clinicians and anyone else interested in the psychology of motherhood.-Daphne de Marneffe, author of Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Lifeīarbara Almond's book is a wonderful new resource for helping mothers, especially new mothers, to tolerate that love between them and their children must be burdened by resentment. Almond's fresh insights and perspectives regarding maternal ambivalence help us to become more comfortable with these feelings. Barbara Almond, an experienced psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, shows us how and why this is so. Such feelings are particularly scary for mothers, and Dr.
Chodorow, author of The Reproduction of Mothering Psychoanalysis has always addressed the monster within: conflicts, fears, and those unacceptable feelings of anger, envy, and hatred with which we all grapple. writes in The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood that maternal. Her expertly presented material provides the lively underpinning of this compelling book.-Nancy J. I hear from mothers who tell me they wanted to throw their crying baby out the. The Monster Within presents richly nuanced and detailed cases that give the reader a sense of what these difficult feelings of ambivalence are, as they are experienced day to day, consciously and unconsciously. Psychoanalysis has always addressed the monster within: conflicts, fears, and those unacceptable feelings of anger, envy, and hatred with which we all grapple.
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