

Contributions to the Barbara Almond Fund, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood Barbara Almond Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. A memorial will be held at a future date. She authored books on psychiatry, including The Monster Within: The. Almond is survived by her husband, Richard her sister, Alice Rosenthal her sons David, Michael, and Steve and grandchildren Daniel, Lorenzo, Josephine, Judah, and Rosalie. Barbara Almond (J March 6, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Almond had a special interest in the relation of literature to psychology, and in 1996 co-authored "The Healing Narrative: Psychological Studies of Fictional Relationships".ĭr. She was Adjunct Professor at Stanford Medical School and a faculty member and Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program. She practiced in Palo Alto from 1972-2015. She was an accomplished pianist, who graduated from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan Antioch College Yale Medical School Stanford Psychiatry Department and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. With her husband Richard, also a psychiatrist, Almond wrote The Therapeutic Narrative, a book about psychiatric conditions in literary characters. She authored books on psychiatry, including The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood. She uncovers the roots of ambivalence, tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children, and describes a spectrum of maternal behaviorfrom normal feelings to highly disturbed mothering. Barbara Almond was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Almond suggests that all mothers - no matter how much they cherish their children - struggle with mixed feelings, especially when they spill their porridge on the computer. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond brings this troubling issue to light. by Barbara Almond (Author) October 2010 First Edition Paperback 29.95, 24.00 eBook 29.95, 24.00 Courses Sociology of Women Sociology of the Family Gender Inequality Title Details.

Almond was born in the Bronx, the daughter of Anne and Irving Rosenthal. In 'The Monster Within' she integrates clinical cases and studies of fiction to illustrate the pervasiveness and painfulness of maternal ambivalence. The Monster Within The Hidden Side of Motherhood. She died of complications of bladder cancer after a year''s illness.ĭr. Barbara Almond, 77, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author of "The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood" about women''s ambivalence towards children, died March 6 at her home in Palo Alto.
