Altered Loves: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence

by Terri Apter

Book Overview

Are mothers jealous of their developing daughters? Is an early mother-child bond severed during adolescence and never formed again? What does adolescence feel like to a girl? Drawing on detailed interviews with mothers and daughters from Terri Apter's research in Great Britain and America, and from recent psychological studies of family interaction, Altered Loves is a frank, moving, and insightful examination of this crucial time in a woman's life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449906310
• ISBN13: 9780449906316
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Lifesaver

When my daughter was a troubled Adolescent this book validated my experience like no other. She is now a happy and whole young woman with a daughter of her own. I am recommending this book to a young friend anxious about her fourteen year old daughter.