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

by Patricia Moran and Antonia Bifulco

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415165261
• ISBN13: 9780415165266
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.8"