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**“A book of great value for __every__ daughter and __every__ mother; useful for sons, too.”—Benjamin Spock, M.D.**__From the Introduction:__The goal of this book is to help readers achieve that separation so that they can either find a way to be friends with their mothers, or at least recognize and accept that their mothers did the best they could—even if it wasn't “good enough”—and to stop blaming them. Among the issues to be covered: • To understand how a daughter's attachment to her mother—more so than her relationship with her father—colors all her other relationships, and to analyze why it is more difficult for daughters than sons to separate from their mothers, as well as why daughters are more subject than sons to a mother's manipulation• To recognize the difference between a healthy and a destructive mother-daughter connection, and to define clearly the “bad mommy,” in order to help readers who have trouble acknowledging their childhood losses to begin to comprehend them• To conjugate what I call the “Bad Mommy Taboo”—why our culture is more eager to protect the sanctity of maternity than it is to protect emotionally abused daughters • To describe the evolution of the "unp

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Author

Victoria Secunda

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385304238

Category

self-help

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology

Rating

3.89 / 5 (153 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13