Whatever your age, to become a fulfilled and creative person you must resolve the issues in your life that derive from your relationship with your parents.
The eminent Yale graduate Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., is also the best-selling author of several books of popular psychology. In
Making Peace with Your Parents he has written a compassionate, wise and practical book for coming to grips with the most fundamental, and perhaps difficult, relationship of our lives.
Drawing upon insights from his extensive practice and research in the field, as well as from personal experience with his own family, Dr. Bloomfield illustrates the problems we all encounter expressing love and anger toward our parents. He further reveals how underneath our anger and resentment, we retain a deep desire to love and be loved by our parents.
This helpful book contains exercises, case studies and personal growth techniques to: break free of the "approval trap" -- improve communication in the family -- cope effectively with martyrs, dictators and other difficult parents -- unravel the parental messages about sex, love and marriage -- deal with our parents' aging, dying and death.
We learn self-parenting skills through which we not only can become more nurturing and loving to our children -- but truly can become our "own best parent." Making peace with your parents is at the very core of our human experience: an adventure of the heart in loving and being loved.
