1st Edition

Mothers and Daughters II Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 26.1

Edited By Rosemary H. Balsam, Ruth S. Fischer Copyright 2006
    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is the second  issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry devoted to mothers and daughters.  This project began as the mother-daughter bond was calling out for attention in light of the many advances in our understanding of female psychology.  The goal of female development is no longer considered to be a severing of the mother-daugher bond to attain autonomy and sexual maturity.  What, then, are its vicissitudes as it is revisited, reworked, and transformed as the girl and her mother grow and develop and ultimately attain a state of interdependence?  The relational context of development is now considered: gender-related differences in behavior and in parental interaction; and the girl's special relationship with her mother and her mother's body and the importance to her of her own body with its special attributes, contours, and sensations. 

    Prologue - R. H. Balsam and R. S. Fischer
    Frida Kahlo and Object Choice: A Daughter the Rest of Her Life - N. Kulish
    Fighting With Spoons: On Caretaking Rivalry Between Mothers and Daughters - C. Schmidt-Hellerau
    Pathways of Growth in the Mother/Daughter Relationship - S. G. Hershberg 
    Searching for Togetherness: The Simultaneous Treatment of a Mother and Her Early Adolescent Daughter - S. E. Chazan 
    Bound Together by Chronic Pain and Trauma: A Study of Two Mother-Daughter Relationships - B. S. Shapiro 
    The Disappearing (or Ghost) Mother Transference: In Search of the Available Mother Within - S. Zalusky 
    Mothers and Daughters as Adults - M. T. Notman 
    Epilogue - R. H. Balsam and R. S. Fischer

    Biography

    Rosemary H. Balsam, Ruth S. Fischer