![]() ![]() She is coauthor of The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change. Here’s an excerpt from Steve Almond’s interview with UC Press author Barbara Almond: Rumpus: There’s such a remarkable range of cultural touchstones in the book, everything from literary novels ( Beloved, The Tin Drum, The Fifth Child) to blockbuster movies ( Aliens, Rosemary’s Baby) to pop culture figures (Brooke Shields, the Octomom). This is essential reading for mothers, in psychotherapy or not, for fathers, and for therapists, including male therapists who will become better able to see women's bodies and motherhood from a woman's perspective."―Stanley Coen, M.D., author of Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst About the Author:īarbara Almond, M.D., is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice, a member of the faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and Emeritus Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Her evocative clinical and literary stories make ambivalence a bit easier for mothers to bear. "Barbara 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 Life Almond's fresh insights and perspectives regarding maternal ambivalence help us to become more comfortable with these feelings. She authored books on psychiatry, including The Monster Within: The. ![]() Chodorow, author of The Reproduction of Mothering Barbara Almond (J March 6, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Barbara Almond, The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood. Her expertly presented material provides the lively underpinning of this compelling book."―Nancy J. It considers first-time mothering within a wider framework of the changing nature. 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. Barbara Almond, an experienced psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, shows us how and why this is so. Such feelings are particularly scary for mothers, and Dr. "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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