Mothering Ourselves

by Evelyn S. Bassoff

Book Overview

With examples drawn from her own experience, from her patients' stories, and from myth, fairy tale, and contemporary fiction, Dr. Bassoff shows readers how to overcome the conflict between intense identification with and resentment of the mother that so often causes women deep unhappiness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525249389
• ISBN13: 9780525249382
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

One of the most helpful books I have ever read

After listening to the warm and enlightening tape by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "Warming the Stone Child" I realized that I needed to learn to mother myself. Dr. Estes said that even if one is 'unmothered' or not mothered well they can indeed learn to mother themselves and this would nurture and grow the internal mother within which would give them strength and inner security and help mend the gnawing hunger within for love which is often filled by addictive behaviors. So my next question was how do I learn to mother myself when I didn't have a good role model? This book is helping me to learn more about mothering and nurturing myself. Reading this book felt good deep inside and I could feel so many parts of myself being nourished by the authors words and grow stronger. I highly recommend this book to anyone who didn't have adequate mothering. It is also helping me learn to be a better mother to my own son. I also recommend the tapes and books by Dr. Estes and the books of Victoria Secunda and Motherless Daughters.