Motherhood is often portrayed as one of the most fulfilling experiences in a woman's life. Books on pregnancy, birth and motherhood not only tell women what they should do, these books also encourage women to have high expectations of what is inevitably a "journey into the unknown". This new book takes a different approach by telling the individual stories of 800 recent mothers. We hear about what happened to them during pregnancy and childbirth, what contributed to good and bad experiences of birth, and what these women thought of the care they received. Ninety of the women went on to participate in interviews two years later. The result is a moving and powerful account of what it is like to be a mother in the 90's. Topics covered include caring for children, running the household, and providing financial Mental health issues are also addressed--one in seven women was depressed in the year after childbirth. In this unique book, they discuss the origins of this depression and how they coped with it.  Missing Voices: The Experience of Motherhood is essential for all mothers, fathers, for anyone contemplating having children, and for all those concerned with the health and well-being of mothers, children and families.

Missing Voices: The Experience of Motherhood

Politics & Social Sciences

Brown, Stephanie

Astbury, Jill

Lumley, Judith

Small, Rhonda

Women's Studies

Oxford University Press

A comprehensive theoretical and practical presentation on theassessment and treatment of adult children of alcoholics. In Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics, renowned psychologist,researcher, and author Stephanie Brown develops an in-depth,integrated theory linking childhood experiences with an alcoholicparent to developmental difficulties. She emphasizes the importanceof the traumatic family environment and provides rich clinicaldescriptions, linking systems theory and literature of thehandicapped to the experience of children of alcoholics. Dr. Brown connects environmental issues with individualdevelopment. She details the defensive maneuvers required to copewith an alcoholic parent and explores their impact on thedevelopment of the self. Finally, she outlines the process ofrecovery, continuing to emphasize the link between environment andindividual development. She traces the recovery process from itsfirst step--admitting parental alcoholism--through thereconstruction of personal identity based on incorporating therealities of parental alcoholism into a new vision of theself. For mental health professionals, alcoholism counselors, graduatestudents, recovering alcoholics and their families, and adultchildren of alcoholics, Treating Adult Children of Alcoholicsprovides a clear understanding of the impact of parental alcoholismon the developing child. It also opens the door to a solid,realistic course of treatment that offers hope to thousands ofadult children of alcoholics.

Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

wiley

The book that revolutionized the psychotherapist's approach to treating alcoholism When it was first published in 1985, Treating the Alcoholic challenged traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to alcoholism treatment. Since then, thousands of mental health professionals, using Dr. Stephanie Brown's treatment model, have found renewed faith in their ability to help alcoholic patients achieve lasting recovery. The book begins by studying the experiences of people who have stopped drinking and provides firsthand descriptions of the inevitable emotional, physical, and psychological problems that follow. Dr. Brown then offers a model for treatment that replaces the notion of abstinence as a static state with a dynamic, process-oriented "continuum of recovery" principle. She translates the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous into psychological terms, taking particular care to explain the crucial notion of "loss of control" Perhaps the most surprising element of Dr. Brown's model is her emphasis on the triadic therapeutic relationship in which therapist, patient, and AA counselor work in partnership to ensure ongoing recovery. Once considered a radical departure from the conventional wisdom, Treating the Alcoholic offers a now-proven approach that enables psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, alcoholism counselors, and other mental health professionals to understand the dynamics of alcoholism and make profound contributions to the recovery process.

Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery

Safe Passage: Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Describes children of alcoholics and what they, as adults, must do to cure themselves of the effects of growing up with alcoholic parents. Dr. Stephanie Brown writes about a topic she knows both scientifically as well as personally. She describes how adult children of alcoholics can recover from the debilitating effects of their childhood by learning to accept rather than deny their parent's alcoholism. She also discusses how they can discover and face the truth about themselves through self-examination, group therapy and other means.

Psychology & Counseling

The book that revolutionized the psychotherapist's approach to treating alcoholism When it was first published in 1985, Treating the Alcoholic challenged traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to alcoholism treatment. Since then, thousands of mental health professionals, using Dr. Stephanie Brown's treatment model, have found renewed faith in their ability to help alcoholic patients achieve lasting recovery. The book begins by studying the experiences of people who have stopped drinking and provides firsthand descriptions of the inevitable emotional, physical, and psychological problems that follow. Dr. Brown then offers a model for treatment that replaces the notion of abstinence as a static state with a dynamic, process-oriented "continuum of recovery" principle. She translates the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous into psychological terms, taking particular care to explain the crucial notion of "loss of control." Perhaps the most surprising element of Dr. Brown's model is her emphasis on the triadic therapeutic relationship in which therapist, patient, and AA counselor work in partnership to ensure ongoing recovery. Once considered a radical departure from the conventional wisdom, Treating the Alcoholic offers a now-proven approach that enables psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, alcoholism counselors, and other mental health professionals to understand the dynamics of alcoholism and make profound contributions to the recovery process.

Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery (Wiley Series on Personality Processes)

Wiley-Interscience

A comprehensive theoretical and practical presentation on the assessment and treatment of adult children of alcoholics. In Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics, renowned psychologist, researcher, and author Stephanie Brown develops an in-depth, integrated theory linking childhood experiences with an alcoholic parent to developmental difficulties. She emphasizes the importance of the traumatic family environment and provides rich clinical descriptions, linking systems theory and literature of the handicapped to the experience of children of alcoholics. Dr. Brown connects environmental issues with individual development. She details the defensive maneuvers required to cope with an alcoholic parent and explores their impact on the development of the self. Finally, she outlines the process of recovery, continuing to emphasize the link between environment and individual development. She traces the recovery process from its first step--admitting parental alcoholism--through the reconstruction of personal identity based on incorporating the realities of parental alcoholism into a new vision of the self. For mental health professionals, alcoholism counselors, graduate students, recovering alcoholics and their families, and adult children of alcoholics, Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics provides a clear understanding of the impact of parental alcoholism on the developing child. It also opens the door to a solid, realistic course of treatment that offers hope to thousands of adult children of alcoholics.

Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective (Wiley Series on Personality Processes)

Physical description: 80p. : chiefly col ill. ; 32 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references.80. - Index. Subjects: Jesus Christ - Art.

Religious Painting

Oxford (Phaidon)

Stephanie Brown offers a hint of something curiously ominous through the sly epigraph she chooses from Henry James―"The amount of thought they give to their clothing, the people who are afraid of looking frivolous!" But we should already have known something unsettling was about to happen from this book's title, which suggests the devastating playfulness at work in these poems. One poem deals with vacationing librarians: "it's not so simple that we're prim and went to the exotic / Though perhaps that's what the story really is." What the story "really is" is sometimes what it seems but with a twist; and it is sometimes so ironically envisioned you would hardly believe this was California. These poems are indeed allegorical, but this is a thoroughly modern allegory dealing with a frighteningly up-to-date set of situations.

Allegory of the Supermarket: Poems (The Contemporary Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University of Georgia Press

The poems in Domestic Interior describe the private and sometimes secret spaces of marriage, parenthood, and knowledge.

Domestic Interior (Pitt Poetry Series)

University of Pittsburgh Press

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Books by Brown, Stephanie

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Missing Voices: The Experience of Motherhood

Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective

Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery

Safe Passage: Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Safe Passage: Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery (Wiley Series on Personality Processes)

Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective (Wiley Series on Personality Processes)

Religious Painting

Allegory of the Supermarket: Poems (The Contemporary Poetry)

Domestic Interior (Pitt Poetry Series)