Mother, Father

Mother, Father

This fascinating collection of autobiographical and biographical essays examines the many roles of mother and father, both personal and cultural, in the psychological life and development of the individual.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE: MY MOTHER, MY FATHER

• Father and Son Robert Bly
• On Being Born, On Caring, and On Dying Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• My Mother and My Father Mary Catherine Bateson
• Powerful Women: Mother, Great Grandmother Betty Sue Flowers
• The Power and Limitations of Parents Jerome Kagan

PART TWO: THE MOTHER, THE FATHER

• The Eternal Woman: The Worship of Mary in Art Elizabeth Silverthorne
• Mother and Daughter Relationships Mary Briner
• The Myth of the Hero John Silber
• Jung: Father and Son-One View Murray Stein

Jung: Father and Son-Another View Harry A. Wilmer

About the Author

Harry Wilmer is founder, emeritus director and president of the Institute for the Humanities at Salado in the small central Texas village where he has lived since 1971. He is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in Salado. Wilmer received his M.D. and other degrees from the University of Minnesota. He has been a National Research Council fellow in the medical sciences at Johns Hopkins, a fellow in internal medicine and neuropsychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, and later a consultant in psychiatry there. His creative work in the Navy was the subject of an award-winning ABC docudrama, starring Lee Marvin and with Arthur Kennedy as Wilmer. Bill Moyers produced two PBS-TV documentaries on Wilmer’s work at the Salado institute and he has authored numerous books and articles, and lectured throughout the world. He and his wife Jane raised five children.