Motherhood is a unique experience. It leads a woman into an unknown universe, full of new possibilities and discoveries. In "Motherhood and the Encounter with One's Own Shadow ," renowned psychotherapist Laura Gutman explains the conflicting feelings a woman experiences in labor, offering important guidance on the pre- and postpartum phases.
Amidst a whirlwind of emotions, establishing a safe and stable environment for your baby poses a major challenge. How can you navigate this period of intense change calmly while preserving the bond between mother and baby? Using different everyday situations as examples, Laura presents a range of feelings that any woman who has become a mother can easily identify with.
The author clarifies questions about common themes related to motherhood, such as postpartum depression, the role of men in the mother-baby relationship, the importance of breastfeeding, women's sexuality, the loss of identity, and the consequences of an unstable family environment on the child's psyche. Despite being very different from each other, women enter a territory where an essential affinity common to all mothers circulates.
Through a variety of everyday situations, the author describes a range of sensations that any woman who has become a mother can easily identify with. In this sense, to access and understand this book, intuition or spontaneous sensations that allow us to flow with what happens to us as we turn a randomly chosen page will be very useful.
In a straightforward way, Laura Gutman uses psychology to offer mothers the fundamental knowledge they need to lead a balanced life and provide their children with a healthy, loving childhood.
Motherhood and the encounter with one's own shadow is a valuable work for women who need and want to understand their emotions during the puerperium and postpartum period and also overcome traumas and insecurities, which can have consequences in the life of a child.
Psychotherapist Laura Gutman takes the reader on a journey toward self-knowledge and maturity, for both mother and baby, and provides a moment of reflection on the responsibility of nurturing and loving, analyzing the female psyche and reformulating social prejudices about motherhood and the bond between adults and children.
