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| Legacy Of Our Mothers: How We Function In Adult Relationships |
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| Monday, 05 May 2008 17:00 | |||
  Los Angeles, CA, USA. Clinical Psychologist Stephan B. Poulter explores how our mothers' emotional legacy directly connects to out ability to function in adult relationships. His new book discusses the powerful influence of our mothers in The Mother Factor: How Your Mother's Emotional Legacy Impacts Your Life (Prometheus Books). He argues that that most of us will never understand the complex legacy imparted by our mothers or its far-reaching impact on our lives, with effects that extend to the mothering of our own children. The initial bonds we form become the foundation from which our emotional development, communication style, and personality type evolve through adulthood. No other relationship in our lives has the potential to shape us like the one we share with our mothers, and the more we understand the emotional components of it, the more choices and opportunities for relationship change and personal growth will be available to us.
The Mother Factor: How Your Mother's Emotional Legacy Impacts Your Life. Stephan B. Poulter. Prometheus Books. ISBN-10: 1591026075; ISBN-13: 978-1591026075
Poulter defines the mother factor as our emotional development, functioning, and ability to form meaningful relationships in family life, in social life, and with intimate partners. It is an emotional template started with the mother-child relationship that influences our feelings of frustration, love, fear, and hope. Our mothers’ style of parenting is the template for our emotional disposition and our core sense of who and what we are in the world. Poulter stresses that our emotional functioning is consciously and unconsciously shaped by our mothers.
The mother factor can work for or against us. Poulter shows that in order for it to work for us, we must understand the pervasive influence of our mothers. By focusing on our mother factor from many different angles and perspectives, Poulter strives to give us a more complete view of our own legacy. A new set of crucial insights can enable the personal power to make different choices, to let go of old self-defeating patterns, to take new and positive action, and to have a deeper sense of fulfillment. Poulter says the entire investigation is for the sole purpose of "… gaining new, valuable insight and clarity …" to open more options in life.
He also explores how our emotional connections in adult relationships are based on the “style” of our mothers. Poulter defines the five styles of mothering as:
Poulter's book makes clear that no matter what type of mother we have— and most mothers are a combination of the above—her style of mothering affects our lives in ways that should not be ignored. The reliance on types is a common feature in self-help books that tends to avoid the blur when people migrate from one type to another, either as a normal consequence of life's passages or — more to the point — navigate deliberate change from one to the other.
Even though he does not address the situation of mothers that cross the defined type lines, most readers can fill in the blanks and be empowered by his message. The book's basic approach is to aid the reader in an investigation each mothering style, including an inventory of strengths, insights, and liabilities. He uses checklists and question-and-answer exercises to diagnose the situation. Some readers may expect canned solutions, but this isn't that sort of book. Readers are expected to develop common sense solutions that apply in their particular situations.
Since Poulter uses this approach for each of his mothering types, the book will feel repetitious times, a common annoyance in many self-help books that rely on stark contrasts between the alternatives. However, there is enough in the way of clear thinking and useful suggestions to make reading worthwhile.
Stephen B. Poulter, PhD, is the author of three previously published books including The Father Factor. He has practiced as a clinical psychologist specializing in family relationships for twenty-four years. The Mother Factor: How Your Mother's Emotional Legacy Impacts Your Life. Stephan B. Poulter. Prometheus Books. ISBN-10: 1591026075; ISBN-13: 978-1591026075  The TS-Si News Service is a collaborative effort by TS-Si.org editors, contributors, and corresponding institutions. The sources can include the cited individuals and organizations, as well as TS-Si.org staff contributions. Articles and news reports do not necessarily convey official positions of TS-Si, its partners, or affiliates.We welcome your comments. Use the form below to leave a public comment or send private correspondence via the TS-Si Contact Page. We will not divulge any personal details or place you on a mailing list without your permission. TS-Si is dedicated to the acceptance, medical treatment, and legal protection of individuals correcting the misalignment of their brains and their anatomical sex, while supporting their transition into society as hormonally reconstituted and surgically corrected citizens. 
 
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