A study by American Jungian psychotherapist Linda Leonard focuses on women who experienced dramatic childhood relationships with their fathers.
A study by American Jungian psychotherapist Linda Leonard focuses on women who experienced dramatic childhood relationships with their fathers. By telling the stories of patients, describing their hurting relationship with an authoritarian or seductive, humiliating or indifferent father, the author shows how this trauma is formed and manifests itself. “These women appear quite successful when they walk into my office,” writes Linda Leonard, “but beneath their outward success lies deep despair, feelings of abandonment and loneliness, fear of rejection, and an inability to form close relationships with men. It is as if they do not live their own lives, but only perform the roles imposed on them. How to heal from childhood trauma and rediscover your true self, this book tells.
Class, 224 p.