Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 1992
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 192
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 1199
- ISBN 13 : 9781855753419
- ISBN 10 : 1855753413
About the Author(s)
Dr Estela V. Welldon, MD, HonDSc, FRCPsych, is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Tavistock and Portman NHS Clinics. She is the Founder and the Honorary Life President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. In 1997, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by Oxford Brookes University. Welldon works privately as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organizational consultant. She is a Member of the British Association for Psychotherapy, the British Psychoanalytic Council, the Institute of Group Analysis, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the International Association for Group Psychotherapy. She is the author of Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood (1988) and Sadomasochism (2002) and is the main editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997).