Unloved Daughter. How to Leave Traumatic Relationships with Mother in the Past and Start a New Life / Peg Streep; translated from English — Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2023. — 384 pages. — (Series "Alpina: Psychology and Philosophy"). ISBN 978-5-00139-938-4
In our culture, it is commonly believed that a mother’s love is unconditional and unshakable. Few are ready to admit the harsh truth: there are mothers who reject and humiliate their children or wound them with indifference. As adults, such people often remain silent about their experiences and suffer from loneliness. A sense of isolation — an abyss separating them from their closest ones, a stigma of being damaged, the fear that there is something wrong with them — is a usual consequence of the absence of maternal love. Often, external achievements of such people — a successful career, creating their own family — do not bring them complete happiness. This book by American writer Peg Streep is addressed to women who have gone through the same experiences of an unloved child as she did herself. The author not only presents many stories of daughters deprived of maternal love, but also describes methods to help get rid of the burden of the past. The goal of the book is to help realize and accept one’s childhood experience, understand its role in the formation of today’s personality, and to make efforts for healing. UDC 159.923.2 BBK 883