The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect

Legible though the book is still worn out and had got wet at some point.

Dit boek geeft een duidelijk beeld van de emotioneel afwezige moeder, de impact hiervan op het kind en wat je, op latere leeftijd, zelf kan doen om de schade (enigszins) te herstellen. Ik ben dankbaar, dat dit boek op mijn pad is gekomen. Het lezen ervan was af en toe confronterend en emotioneel, maar ik ben achteraf blij, dat ik het gedaan heb. Het heeft mijn ogen geopend.

If you truly suspect SERIOUS issues with your relationship with your mother, especially if you were / are or thinking of therapy - read this. It's not only a wise and thorough book (NOT a silly self-help do this and your life will be transformed book). It's beautifully written and full of wisdom and compassion, compassion for hurt adult daughters but also messed up mothers that hurt us. For all of us who want to rever and give a better deal to our daughters, so not to repeat the heritage of neglect or ill emotions. I'd say this book might depress some, if it makes you realise how deep your issues are but you luck the commitment to take it up with the therapist so be aware of it , if you want to make the most of the wisdom that is there. But most of all hats off to the author, for putting so much both expertise and heart and original but very comprehensive approach to the mother-daughter drama. She did not write a book to make money and advance her career, she wrote it as she had so much wise and good to share, and you feel it as you read it. Thanks for that!

My personal therapist recommended this book as we have been working for about two years on my 'mother issues'. There were many 'light bulb' moments for me as I read the book: Jasmin Lee Cori sensitively takes you through some painful issues and makes helpful connections and observations which really do help to heal childhood emotional neglect. There were times when I laughed out loud as it felt to me like the author knew my mum! I use sticky markers each time I find really helpful/useful text; my test of a 'good book' is how many markers I use. If you look at the picture you will see that this book if packed with helpful/useful text! I would like to thank the author for writing such a helpful and insightful book.

The book has a very good quality of paper. The content is very interesting.

A bit softer in its tone compared to other books on the same subject in that many books about immature parents often seem to centre around narssistic mother’s, where as I found this book very good as it didn’t do that. Most people have had some kind of neglect but not everyone has narssistic parents, it’s usually pattern they picked up from their neglect from their parents. It showed understanding to the mother without taking anything away from the one who had been neglected. I thought well written, and helped feel understood, also was good to see how everyone reacts different to neglect and the different styles, helped me be a bit more understanding of others too. I highly recommend this book. It was the first book I read on the subject and was a real eye opener and I plan on rereading.