Wednesday's Child: Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood and Adult Depression

As many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of systematic research,Wednesday's Child examines why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, low self-esteem and depression. Drawing on interviews with over 200 women, the authors show vividly what can be learned from the experience of adult survivors of abuse. Most importantly, Wednesday's Child assesses the factors which can reduce the later impact of such experience on both the children of today and the parents of tomorrow.

Self-Help

Moran, Patricia

Bifulco, Antonia

Death & Grief

Routledge

Drawing on 20 years of research, this book looks at the reasons why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, low self esteem and depression.

Word of Mouth focuses on the two most prominent women in British modernism, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Patricia Moran reevaluates Mansfield and Woolf, focusing on the figures of the anorexic and the hysteric and on the extensive imagery of eating, feeding, starvation, suffocation, flesh, and longing that permeates both fictional and nonfictional texts; it locates this writing within the overlapping frames of psychoanalytic theory, studies of women and eating disorders, and feminist work on women's anxiety and authorship.

Word of Mouth: Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (Feminist Issues (Charlottesville, Va.))

Literature & Fiction

Univ of Virginia Pr

Offers beginning and advanced artists a guide to painting flowers in oils, discussing the effective use of materials, choosing flowers, setting up a still life, and handling troublesome areas such as vases, leaves, lighting, and the placement of the subject on canvas

Painting the Beauty of Flowers With Oils

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

North Light Books

Painting

Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness

Misdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipolar or manic-depressive illness, Antonia White turned repeatedly to psychoanalysis and Catholicism to resolve the emotional conflicts that she believed were the cause of her tumultuous moods, her inexplicable behaviour, and her writer's block. This study rereads White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illness to show how the misdiagnosis of her illness shaped the identity narratives White constructed in her life-writing and then used as the basis for her strongly autobiographical fiction. White's self-narratives have skewed critical interpretations of her work; at the same time, her fiction has not been studied as expressive of affective disorder. By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White; documents the complex interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors involved in affective disorder; and historicises the diagnosis and treatment of White's illness in medical, psychoanalytic, and Catholic contexts.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Edinburgh University Press

Quarto, 1995, PP.144, From A Romantic Dinner For Two To An Arbor Wedding For Fifty. The Complete Guide To Entertaining Outdoors

Garden Entertaining: From a Romantic Dinner for Two to an Arbor Wedding for Fifty...the Complete Guide to Entertaining Outdoors

Davis, Hilary

J G Pr

As a young professor sits with a student and then her own mother through their illnesses and deaths, she experiences an inner stillness that calls into question all that she thinks she knows. Guided by a powerful dream in which her dead father appears to her as a teacher, she comes to recognize the walls of illusion that separate us from who we really are. This beautifully written memoir is both a story about courageous people and a spiritual revelation: that death is a return to love without barriers.

PERFECTLY STILL

Parenting & Relationships

AmazonUs/INDPB

The Oil Painter's Ultimate Flower & Portrait Companion

Intl Artist Pub Inc

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