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This work originated from my personal experience and observation of African American females who struggle to individuate from a symbiotic and/or enmeshed mother/daughter relationship. In this project, I am attempting, not to impose my truth, but to share my observations. I use clinical materials, neither to prove nor to establish generalizations applicable to every African American mother/daughter relationship; rather, they are used to illustrate some repeated examples of dynamics that exist under certain circumstances within the African American mother/daughter dyad.
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Wendy Farley describes radical suffering as an assault on the self so intense in its effects that we could call it dehumanizing or decreative. It turns people into victims and robs them of a sense of value, dignity, and freedom central to being human. Wendy Farley, Tragic Vision and Divine Compassion, (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990), 53.
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Hill, M.G. (2012). Conclusion and Wider Implications. In: Womanism against Socially Constructed Matriarchal Images. Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010766_7
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