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Deborah, Golda, and Me
Delayed reactions
Denes-Raj, Veronika
Denial
and ability to mourn
and acknowledgment
and adults
and children
as stage of grief
Depression
and abandonment
and adolescents
at age mothers died
and children
and child’s age
and fathers
and illness
of mothers
postpartum
and relations with surviving parent
and sibling support
and stepmothers
of surviving parent
and unresolved grief
Desertion
DeVries, Brian
Diana, Princess
Disorganization
Displacement
Divorce
and grief
and mother loss
and neglect
and rejection
and security
Dougy Center for Grieving Children
Doulas
Downey, Roma
Drugs
and adolescence
as cause of mother loss
overdoses
and unresolved grief
Eating disorders
Eggers, Dave
Ehrlichman, Howard
Eisenstadt, Marvin
Eliot, George
Emswiler, James
Emswiler, Mary Ann
Englander, Arlene
Estés, Clarissa Pinkola
Euthanasia
Families
and deaths of mothers
dysfunction in
extended
large
and public grief
and stories
Fast, Irene
Fathers
and abandonment
accepting the limitations of
caring for(See also Caregivers (daughters)
control of
coping strategies of
and early mother loss
girlfriends of
and grief
and incest taboo
“little girl” of
loss of
not talking about loss
nurturing
relations with daughters of
relations with own mothers of
and remarriage
as single parents
split in
threat of departure of
types of
and womanhood and femininity
Fear
and Chowchilla kidnapping
of father loss
of fathers by daughters
of future loss
of having children
and homicide
of identifying with mother
and illness
and mourning
and suicide
See also
Abandonment (expectations and fear of)
Feelings
displacement of
expressing, and ability to mourn
and fathers
releasing
suppression of
Femininity
See also
Identity (feminine)
Ferguson, Sarah
Five Stages of Grief
Fleming, Elizabeth
Fonda, Jane
Ford, Diane
Fraiberg, Selma
Freud, Anna
Freud, Sigmund
Furman, Erna
Garafolo, Janeane
Garber, Benjamin
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Glickfield, Bette D.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Granot, Tamar
Grief
and adolescents
and adults (See also Fathers (and grief)
anticipatory
brought public
and busyness
and childbirth
and children
and connections to dead parent
and creativity
culture of
cyclical nature of
and dates or times of year
and death of second parent
and emotional abandonment
and experiences of mother loss
and families
and homicide
importance of feeling and expressing
and isolation
and later losses
and later relationships
lifelong
and “parental trigger,”
prolonged
and September 11, 2001, attacks
stages of
STUG reactions
suppressed, hidden, and unresolved
and therapy
and transitional times in life See also Adolescents (and mourning); Adults (and mourning); Children (and mourning); Fathers (and grief); Feelings; Mourning
Griffin, Susan
Guiding Your Child Through Grief
Guilt
and ability to mourn
about wish that mother dies
and adolescent mother loss
and anger
and childbirth-related illness
and Chowchilla kidnapping
and illness
and “magical thinking,”
and mourning
over rebelling against mother
and physical distance from mother at loss
and siblings
and suicide
survivor
Hammer, Signe
Harper, James M.
Harris, Maxine
Hargitay, Mariska
Hargitay, Mickey
Harvard Child Bereavement Study
Heart disease
fear of repeating mother’s
Heaton, Patricia
Hegel, Georg
Helplessness
of fathers
Homer
Homicides
Hoopes, Margaret M.
Hurd, Russell
Idealization of mothers
Identity
and birth order
and children and adolescents
conflict
and death of both parents
feminine
and life stories
as parent
split between mother and child-self
views on formation of
and young adults
See also
Mother loss (and identity)
Illness
and ambiguous loss
and anger at mother
and daughter’s resentment
effects on daughters
percentage of causes of death by
and physical changes
and preparation for death
and unresolved grief
In My Mother’s House
Incarceration
Incest
Intimacy
Isolation
and adolescents
from family
and orphans
of pregnant motherless women
Jacobson, Gary
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnson, Miriam
Jung, Carl
Kalinich, Lila J.
Kant, Immanuel
Kash, Kathryn
Keats, John
Kennedy, John F.
Kerr, Barbara
Kersee, Jackie Joyner
Klaus, Marshall
Klaus, Phyllis
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
Lauck, Jennifer
Lesbianism. See Women (with women)
Lincoln, Abraham
Loneliness
The Loss That Is Forever
Love
allowing
and anger
lack of
looking for
and loss
and money
and motherless women
and mourning
sex as
substitutes
Lowinsky, Naomi,
Lusskin, Shari
Madonna
Maguire, Nancy
Marriage
delaying
and fear of loss
by motherless daughters
See also
Fathers (and remarriage)
The Mask of Motherhood
Matridentity
Matrophobia
Maushart, Susan
Memory
absent
and adolescent mother loss
divergent
earliest, of mother
and early childhood mother loss
and late childhood mother loss
Menopause
Menstruation
Mental illness
Michelangelo
Midlife Women and Death of Mother
Milburn, Alison
Minelli, Liza
Minot, Eliza
Minot, Susan
Mireault, Gina
Mishne, Judith
Mitchard, Jacqueline
Mitchell, Margaret
Monroe, Marilyn
Mortality
awareness of
quest against
Mother-daughter relationships
adolescence
early childhood
late childhood
later adulthood
and symbiotic identification
and womanhood
young adulthood
Mother loss
and accommodation
adolescent
and ambivalence toward mother
and attending to ghost
and birth order
as blessing
and career
causes of
compared to father loss
and “counterphobic mechanisms,”
and creativity and achievement
and delinquents and prisoners
denial of
different sibling experiences of
early childhood
as equalizer among women
and fantasy of return
and freedom and autonomy (See also Mother loss (and independence, self-reliance, and personal strength)
and identity
and “if only” syndrome
and independence, self-reliance, and personal strength
late childhood
later adulthood
and “magical thinking,”
and mother’s image
and negative projections
not talking about it (See also Fathers (not talking about loss)
and nurturing
and personality
and prior losses
and quality of care afterward
and relationships (See also Love (looking for)
and sanctification of mothers
and vulnerability to death
young adulthood
See also
Death
Motherhood (of motherless daughters)
and baby’s gender
and infant care
and mother loss
and pregnancy
and raising children
and separation from mother
Mothering Ourselves
Motherless Daughters (first edition)
Motherless Daughters (organization)
Motherless Mothers
Motherline
Mothers
abusive
adolescent replacement
and attachment
cold, unaffectionate, or distant
controlling
death of: age of children
death of: age of mothers
desire to reunite with(See also Mother loss (and fantasy of return)
and feminine identity (See also Identity (feminine)
gathering knowledge of lives of
honoring, through achievement
missing of
as primary female image and guides
substitutes
Mothers and Daughters: Loving and Letting Go
Mother’s Day
Mourning
and abandonment
ability
and abusive mothers
at age of parent’s death
and anger
and another woman
anticipatory
and arrested development
and birth order
blocked, incomplete, or delayed
and childbirth
and creativity
and death of second parent
and detaching from mother
emotions based on
in families
and fathers
and later losses
and later publicity
and later relationships
as lifelong process and in cycles
male versus female
and memory
and mother substitutes
national
and orphans
and pain
and parenting
from safe distance
and sanctification of mother
and sibling competition
and stages of grief
and sudden death
and supports
and surviving parent
and transitional times in life
Worden’s four tasks of See also Adolescents (and mourning); Adults (and mourning); Children (and mourning); Grief
Multiple sclerosis
Murders. See Homicides
Nager, Elizabeth
National Alliance for Grieving Children
Natural disasters
Never Too Young to Know
Nurturing. See Fathers (nurturing); Mother loss (and nurturing); Pregnancy; Women (with women)
O’Donnell, Rosie
Of Woman Born
Oklahoma City bombing
Orphans
adults
children
emotional
and fathers
number of
Overachieving
Pain
and creative play
and displacement
need to embrace
Parents
as cold or inconsistent caregivers
loss of (See also Fathers (loss of); Mother loss)
styles and experiences of, among motherless women
surviving, and children’s grief and long-term adaptation. See Fathers
Parker, Dorothy
Personality. See Mother loss (and personality)
Pietrzyk, Leslie
Pine, Vanderlyn
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Postpartum period
Pregnancy
Quindlen, Anna
Rando, Therese
and traumatic bereavement
Redmond, Lula
Rejection
feelings of
and strength
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