TY - BOOK AU - Almond, Barbara TI - The monster within: The hidden side of motherland SN - 9780520267138 U1 - 306.8743 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - University of California press KW - Love, Maternal -- Psychological aspects KW - Mother and child -- Psychological aspects KW - Motherhood -- Psychological aspects N1 - The ubiquity of maternal ambivalence -- Motherlove: the power of maternal desire -- The subtle ambivalence of the too-good mother -- "Before the beginning": women's fears of monstrous births -- Women's reproductive fears: more clinical examples -- Rachel's story: internalized ambivalence and the dangers of hidden guilt -- Whose fault is it? -- The externalization of ambivalence -- When fears are realized -- From the child's point of view -- Vampyric mothering: from stage moms to invasive moms -- The darkest side of motherhood: child murder -- What happens later: the fate of maternal ambivalence -- What's a mother to do? ER -