Many Mothers blame themselves for their faltering and failed relationships with their grown daughters.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husban.
She is the author of Everything You Pretend to Know and Are Afraid Someone Will Ask and has been a freelance writer since 1991.
Lynette Padwa is a fifteen-year veteran of the West Coast book publishing industry.
She lives in Los Angeles and practices there and in Encino.
She is married and has three daughters and two sons.
She leads group therapy sessions and conducts seminars for Mothers of Difficult daughters. in clinical psychology who specializes in Relationship counseling.
D.
Charney Herst is a psychotherapist with a Ph.
About the Author: Dr.
It offers hope, not criticism.
This book helps Mothers untangle the web of personal history and intense emotion, and take the lead in repairing this all-important bond.
The Distant Daughter is the most heartbreaking of all, for these women have withdrawn, gradually or dramatically -- and sometimes completely -- from their mothers.
The Dissatisfied Daughter is the chronically unhappy one who is independent but treats her mother as a dumping ground for grievances large and small.
The Dependent Daughter is the one who won\'t leave the nest, who continually expects mom to pay for everything, the one who seems incapable of running her own life.
Herst, there are three kinds of Difficult daughters.
According to Dr.
Charney Herst teaches Mothers to better understand their daughters and to recognize their strengths and weaknesses.
In this important and empowering book, which has been featured on Oprah and Good Morning America and has sparked print coverage on the mother/daughter dynamic in papers like the los Angeles Times and The New York Daily News, Dr.
Charney Herst tells us it isn\'t so.
Family therapist and clinical psychologist Dr.
And even more Mothers believe that their strained relations are irreparable, and that friendship -- or even civility -- with their female offspring is impossible.
Many Mothers blame themselves for their faltering and failed relationships with their grown daughters
