Does mom control your every move? Do you constantly feel her appreciative and devaluing look? Are all your actions under fire? Susan Forward has been working as a psychologist for more than 35 years with women who have to contend with their mothers. They have been subject to years of criticism, competition, suffocating scrutiny, emotional neglect and abuse from their mothers. These women suffer from anxiety and depression, relationship problems, lack of confidence and trust difficulties. They question their worth and ability to love. The forward describes a narcissistic mother, a rival mother, a control freak mother, a mother entangled in life, mothers who do not protect their daughters from violence or are aggressive to their daughters themselves.