Research Catalog

Title

Perfect daughters : adult daughters of alcoholics / Robert J. Ackerman.

Author

Ackerman, Robert J.

Publication

Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c1989.

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Details

Description

xii, 197 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Draws upon hundreds of interviews with adult daughters of alcoholics, exploring the childhood experiences and relationships of women raised by alcoholic parents, examining the source of many of the behaviors of adult daughters, and discussing recovery.

Subject

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adjustment (Psychology)
• Adult children of alcoholics > United States
• Alcoholism
• Codependency
• Daughters > United States
• Parent-Child Relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Childhood revisited -- 1. Home groan, daughters in alcoholic families -- 2. What did you learn at home today? -- 3. These are the things I learned -- 4. Alcoholic mothers, pains of endearment -- 5. Alcoholic fathers, daughter dearest -- 6. Two alcoholic parents: don't add, multiply -- Part 2. Co-dependently yours -- 7. Me, myself, and I: how well do you know these people? -- 8. What kind of adult daughter are you? -- 9. I'm not co-dependent, are we? -- Part 3. Save you, save me -- 10. Relationships or you married a what? -- Part 4. Discovery and recovery of me -- 12. I think I can, I think I can -- 13. To self, with love, from daughter.

ISBN

1558740406 :

LCCN

^^^89015247^//r92

OCLC

19848470

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library