Book Review: How Mothers Love – and How Relationships are Born

Abstract

Reviews the book, How Mothers Love-and How Relationships Are Born by Naomi Stadlen (2011). This is an important book for therapists and other professionals, but it is also accessible to the general reader. It is a phenomenological study of mothers. Unlike many other writings on parenting by psychotherapists, the emphasis is on all mothers rather than focusing on those for whom things go wrong in some sense. The author writes about the mothers she has come across in the course of her work as a breastfeeding counselor and a convener for the past 20 years of weekly discussion groups for mothers. She gives us typical selections of their actual verbatim speech so that we can hear their voices for ourselves. All in all, this book is lively, entertaining and deceptively easy to read. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)