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Barbara and Steve Almond Discuss The Monster Within

What do you do when your mother writes a book about maternal ambivalence, which then receives a rave review in The New Yorker? After “smash[ing] your head against the wall three times,” you interview her, as The Rumpus’s Steve Almond did, to get to the bottom of why she decided to write about “women’s fears [more...]

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The Other Crime that Dare Not Speak Its Name

Barbara Almond, psychotherapist and author of The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood, writes about the common, but little-discussed issue of maternal ambivalence in her most recent blog post for Psychology Today. Read it below:

This blog is about the dilemmas of modern parenting and the painful emotions that ensue from attempts to do it [more...]

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