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Daughters of madness : growing up and older with a mentally ill mother
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Daughters of madness : growing up and older with a mentally ill mother

Author: Susan Nathiel
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
Series: Women's psychology
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Nathiel
ISBN: 0275990427 9780275990428
OCLC Number: 76794809
Description: xix, 196 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mother's role in our "self" development -- The research : bonds and brains -- 2. Early childhood -- Something's wrong with Mom -- What's real? -- Am I bad? -- When Mom is mean, or just doesn't care -- Why doesn't anybody help? -- Keeping secrets -- Making the best of things -- 3. Middle childhood -- Mom at home -- Mom and me -- Explanations -- Who am I? -- Mom goes to the hospital -- Mom in public -- Daughters go out into the world -- Keeping family secrets -- Fathers and siblings -- Suicide threats and more -- Resilience -- 4. Adolescence -- Mom at home -- Mom in public -- Psychiatric treatment and hospitals -- What to think? What to feel? -- Rites of passage -- Fathers and siblings -- Shame and secrets -- Psychological fallout -- Early exits -- Resilience -- 5. Young adulthood -- Going out into the world -- Staying connected with home -- Mom in the hospital -- Beginning her own family -- Fallout and resilience -- 6. Adulthood -- Mothers' lives, continued -- Getting along, or not - Elderly mothers -- Mothers as grandmothers -- Hospitals and psychiatric treatment -- More fallout -- Fallout for siblings -- Reflections -- Reflections about fathers -- 7. Afterthoughts -- Some final reflections on mothers' lives -- The best and worst of being a "daughter of madness" -- 8. What do we need to learn? -- Appendix : short biographies of women interviewed -- Notes -- Index -- About the series editor and advisers.
Series Title: Women's psychology
Responsibility: Susan Nathiel.
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