Welldon, Estela (2019) Mother, Madonna, whore: Understanding perverse mothering: Reflections on a ground-breaking book. In: Mothers accused and abused: Addressing complex psychological needs. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 11-15. ISBN 9781315105550

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Abstract

Estela takes this opportunity to tell the story of the book she wrote in 1988, entitled Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood, in which she offers a conceptualisation and explanation of perverse mothering. Some of her earlier reflections on this book and her journey since writing it are to be found in Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality (2011) and Dancing with death, (British Journal of Psychotherapy Vol. 25, Number 2, May 2009).

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Children, Young People and Developmental Pyschology > Child Abuse & Neglect - Psychology Criminology > Forensic Psychiatry Criminology > Forensic Psychotherapy Families > Mother Child Relations Families > Maternal Deprivation
Department/People:	Honorary Staff
URI:	https://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/id/eprint/2093

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