# Torn In Two

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- Authors: [Rozsika Parker](https://www.bookquiver.com/rozsika-parker)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-171-4
- Published: 2005-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

New, revised edition of this bold and exciting book. More and more women confess uneasily to finding motherhood as much a source of pain as pleasure. Rozsika Parker presents a new understanding of maternal ambivalence, suggesting that the coexistence of love and hate can stimulate and sharpen a mother's awareness of what is going on between her and her child. Drawing on interviews, clinical material from her practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a range of literary sources, Torn in Two is original and accessible. With new readings of the work of Klein, Winnicott, Bowlby and others, this book offers invaluable - and often reassuring - insight into the conflicts confronting women at every stage of motherhood.