My Mother, My Mirror

“A valuable resource for both the lay audience and clinicians alike, My Mother, My Mirror offers a thoughtful and engaging perspective on mother-daughter relationships in all of their complexity. Laura Arens Fuerstein provides a route for mothers and daughters to examine and re-evaluate the beliefs that serve to keep them bound in self-defeating distortions. She is a compelling storyteller, and her examples, drawn not only from her clinical work, but from works of fiction, biographies, and mythology, provide vivid and engaging illustrations that bring theory to life. Notably, she refrains from blaming mothers (who, after all, are recipients of their own psychic inheritance), and ultimately helps to promote a freer and more authentic sense of self.”

—Melinda Parisi, Ph.D., psychologist and program director of the University Medical Center at Princeton Eating Disorders Program