A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear

by Janna Malamud Smith

Book Overview

An intriguing exploration of the psychology of mothering, A Potent Spell demonstrates how a mother's deep, abiding drive to protect and care for a child has created a profound, and often exploited,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618063498
• ISBN13: 9780618063499
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.2" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

If you are a mom, read this book. If you are not, do it too

This book brings justice to an overseen truth about mothers: we are vulnerable. Since the moment we conceive, we are suddenly carrying this unbelievable responsibility that everyone else seems to find normal, although we know it is sometimes unbearable. The survival of a human being depends on us. Loosing a baby, seen our child die, the ultimate devastation. Janna Malamud Smith brings light into this topic, writes wonderfully well, and tells anectodes like the best storyteller. She is smart, intelligent, profoundly educated. It is a joy to read such a complete and profound book.