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Title What do mothers want? : developmental perspectives, clinical challenges / edited by Sheila Feig Brown
Published Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 261 pages)
Series Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; v. 2
Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; v. 2
Contents pt. 1. What mothers want and need -- pt. 2. Women's bodies : choices and dilemmas -- pt. 3. Pulling it all together
Summary 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 c
Notes "Originally panel presentations or workshops at the second Gloria Friedman Memorial Conference of the WIlliam Allanson White Society"--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Motherhood -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
Mothers -- Psychology -- Congresses
Marginality, Social -- Congresses
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Motherhood.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth.
Marginality, Social
Motherhood -- Psychological aspects
Mothers -- Psychology
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Sheila Feig
Gloria Friedman Memorial Conference (2nd : 2004? : William Alanson White Institute)
LC no. 2005043643
ISBN 9781134912100
1134912102
9780203780602
0203780604