You Don't really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight, and How Both Can Win by Terri Apter

You Don't really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight, and How Both Can Win by Terri Apter

Understand what your teenage daughter really meansand learn to use your arguments to strengthen your bond with her. Mothers and teenage daughters argue more than any other child-parent pairon average every two-and-a-half days. These quarrels, Terri Apter shows, are attempts to negotiate changes in a relationship that is valued by both mothers and daughters. A daughter often feels her mother doesn't know or understand her, and by fighting hopes to force her mother into a new awareness of who she really is, how she has changed, and what she is now capable of doing and understanding. But mothers often misinterpret their daughter's outbursts as signs of rejection, and they may pull back feeling hurt and confused. Through case studies and conversations between mothers and daughters, Apter shows mothers how to interpret the meanings behind a daughter's angry words and how to emerge from arguments with a new closeness.

Terri Apter is a writer, psychologist, and retired Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her ten books include The Sister Knot, Difficult Mothers, and What Do You Want from Me? She lives in Cambridge, England.

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ISBN 13	9780393057584
ISBN 10	0393057585
Title	You Don't really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight, and How Both Can Win
Author	Terri Apter
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2004-04-17
Number of pages	288
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