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Dumped on a doorstep at birth, I share a unique and tragic bond with foundling children all over the world
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I ALWAYS knew I was a foundling, discovered wrapped in newspaper
and left on the dirty doorstep of a London office. I was found by
police officers who took me to a hospital in Lewisham where I was
named Peter Andrew Mitchell after the three doctors who looked after
me. My name was changed when I was adopted.
I am well aware how lucky I was to be found alive on that doorstep
on Artillery Lane, near Liverpool Street Station and only 100 metres
from a home for unmarried mothers, which I ...
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Left Behind; She was only 9 when the woman who'd abandoned her at birth was murdered. Now she's finally ready to seek the truth about her mother's tortured life and brutal death
The Washington Post
; I imagined the killers might have held my mother under the water until she was dead, so I would try to stay at the bottom of the swimming pool for as long as I could before shooting up to the surface, choking for air. Or I'd float face down, like someone who had just been knocked over the head.
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Mother in psychoanalysis: A feminist view [in Hebrew]
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
; Mother in psychoanalysis: A feminist view [in Hebrew] by Anat Palgi-Hecker Tel Aviv: Am Oved. 2005. 358 p. Reviewed by Shlomith Cohen, 6 Yoav St, Jerusalem 93151, Israel - shcohenb@gmail.com Anat Palgi-Hecker has embarked on a venture to portray the mother in psychoanalytic thinking from a feminist
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On the side of the mother: 'Yonnondio' and 'Call it Sleep.'
Studies in American Fiction
; Culture has taught us to consume the mother's body--natural and spiritual--without being indebted. --Luce Irigiray The relation between the mother's body and language, between maternity and theory, has been a vexing subject for feminist readers. If, as some propose, language and culture rely on the
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My mother's body: source of torment, source of desire, how can I bring it back to life?
American Scholar
; ... her mother: the face of a tragic Roman emperor. Vuillard was working on the painting of La Comtesse de Polignac when he got the news that his mother was dying. He put down the brush that was creating, on canvas, the face of the daughter (whose body is on the ...
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Bound Together by Chronic Pain and Trauma: A Study of Two Mother-Daughter Relationships
Psychoanalytic Inquiry
; Girls and women are disproportionately affected by chronic pain unrelated to medically defined disease. Because the mother-daughter relationship is pivotal in female development, one can speculate that chronic pain could be entangled with and expressive of the mother-daughter relationship. I
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Pathways of Growth in the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Psychoanalytic Inquiry
; I focus on two central pathways of growth and change in the mother-daughter relationship-empathic attunement, which promotes a secure and cohesive sense of self, and mutual recognition of separate subjectivities, which advances differentiation of mother and daughter. A continually fluctuating
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My Mother's Haunting End
The Washington Post
; My mother's last scream pierces my conscience as I try to fall asleep in a lonely house. Eight months after her death, my mind still wanders to the image I'll never be able to escape: She is gushing bloody vomit as I hold her, yelling for help and pulling desperately on the call cord in her room.
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Mum, you're a star My other mother A woman who appears in a dream, a nurse, the virgin Mary ... Here, writers describe the mother figures who helped shape their lives MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL SURPRISINGLY GOOD ONES, FICTIONAL ONES, NON-BIOLOGICAL ONES... BUT WE BEGIN OUR CELEBRATION OF MATRIARCHAL LOVE IN STYLE, WITH A LOOK AT THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUSLY PHOTOGENIC MOTHERS
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Hilary Mantel When I look up at the pedestal where Mother ought to be, I see, unsurprisingly, the kind of plaster saint for whom pedestals are designed. Every little Catholic girl of my generation had a second mother, as well as the fleshly one God had allocated; she was Our Blessed Mother Mary,
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Natural family planning is easy to follow.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
The Washington Times
; In response to your article Studies of contraceptive failure rates find average 10% chance of pregnancy (April 20), some points need to be clarified regarding natural family planning. It has long been known that no method except abstinence is 100 percent effective in avoiding pregnancy. However,
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