The psychology of women, vol. 2 : motherhood

1 Social and biologic aspects. 2 Motherhood, motherliness, and sexuality. 3 The preliminary phases. 4 The psychology of the sexual act. 5 Problems of conception: psychologic prerequisites of pregnancy. 6 Pregnancy. 7 Delivery. 8 Confinement and lactation: first relations with the child. 9 The mother-child relation. 10 Unmarried mothers. 11 Adoptive mothers. 12 Stepmothers. Epilogue - The climacterium

'The psychosomatic interdependence of the psychologic and physiologic processes is nowhere so clearly demonstrated as in the female reproductive activity. Examination of the psychologic aspects of motherhood makes it inevitable to consider the disturbances not only in the one sphere but also in the other. The related physiologic disturbances are so common that it is entirely justifiable to maintain that there is hardly a woman in whom the normal psychic conflicts do not result in a pathologic distortion, at some point, of the biologic process of motherhood....'

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