Psychology book - These mothers who do not know how to love

A little girl who has been criticized, ignored, abused or smothered by an unloving mother becomes an adult who believes she is never worthy of being loved, never smart enough, pretty enough or good enough to deserve success and happiness. “Because if you were truly worthy of respect and affection, a voice whispered inside her, your mother would have had some for you.» Drawing on the testimonies of patients she met during her long practice as a therapist, Susan Forward proposes in this book: learning to recognize the five types of unloving mothers; identifying the emotional mechanisms of harmful mother-daughter relationships; adopting appropriate strategies to overcome the harshness of one's childhood; acting to protect oneself, emancipate oneself and rebuild oneself.