Mother Was a Psychopath : I Became a Psychologist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carolusson, Susanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child abuse--Psychological aspects.

Child abuse.

Psychologists--Biography.

Psychologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

Female psychopaths are rarely diagnosed. If they have children, they tend to exert total control, violently and manipulatively, although outside the family they appear normal. Spouses rarely dare to confront a partner who turns demonic if questioned. She fights until her false accusations are accepted.In this insightful and highly unusual autoethnographic study, the author, a qualified and licenced psychologist, explores her own and her mother's unique story, and the psycho-social heritage from previous generations. The author explains the dissociative quality of the mother-daughter relation: one idealised; one terrorising. She illustrates how her brother carried the symptoms: anxious, obsessive-compulsive, and overprotected. His records from child psychiatry provide a fascinating documentation of the professional's perspective of the family. The father was the official root of any problem; his alcoholism was the mother's favourite cover. The author was unaware of her own deep wounds, until she herself became a wife and mother. Only then, through deep analytical psychotherapy, could she discover and experience trust.The book is unique and fills a gap in the literature, in addressing the dynamics of female domestic violence, from a grown-up daughter's psychological perspective. The author's way of coping with later challenges in her adult life is inspiring and instructive in discussing how, for example, she keeps her boundaries in communication with her invading mother. It is important reading for students, professionals and researchers in education, social work, child and family support, psychiatry and psychotherapy, primary care, and addiction clinics. A previous version of this title was published in Swedish, in 2022.

Contents:

Intro

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Prologue: The Agony of Writing this Book

Lack of Attachment

Social and Biological Heritage: Polly Talks

Psychologist in Self-Therapy: About Lack of Love

I Want Daddy's Pilsner

I Hit Lennart in the Head

Violet Pastilles and Alienation at the Wall Bars

The Man With the Red Shoes and The Dad With the Plus Fours

I Had Vivid Dreams: The Michelin Man Was One

Venturous

Summer in the City 1956 - 1964

My Beautiful Parents: Can't They Just Die in a Car Accident?

Summers on Dyr Island

Inferno: The TV, the Sport, and the Grog

Starting School

Little-Rump

Straight Lines, Learning and Gratitude

Gratitude for Life

In Letters We Seem To Be a Normal Family

Inculcating the Virtue of Being Economical

"Like a Punch For the Face"

I Look Like a Cracked Ladle

I Want Happy Parents For Christmas

Good Role Models in My Teens

Awkward Attempts To Be a Family Therapist

A Violent Introject

At Last, They Divorce

Xenophobia and Racism

Mum Is Never Wrong.

To Question One's Parents

Psychotherapy As A Unique Relationship: Unconventional Psychologists and Trust

1990 Plus Or Minus Ten Years: Parapsychological Perception

1995: Gifts In Trance

Approaching Sixty: Am I Unconsciously Preparing To Downstep?

2010: Several Loved Ones Die

The Loss of a Son

2010-2011: More Deaths

Mother's Funeral, Seven Were Present, Four Were Not Invited

2020: I Don't Want To Be Vain, Like Mum

Little Brother Got Love, at a High Price

Corona, Crisis Preparedness and Coping Mechanisms

Determinism and Free Will

My Ambivalence Toward Metaphors

An Ordinary But Rich First of November, Just Before My Sixty-Eighth Birthday

Just a Little More Psychology To Round Things Off

Epilogue: Constructive Craze?

About the Author.

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ISBN:

1-80441-684-3

OCLC:

1468529353