Does your mother control your every step? Do you constantly feel her evaluating and devaluing gaze on you? Are all your actions criticized? Susan Forward has worked as a psychologist for over 35 years with women struggling with their mothers. They have been subjected to years of criticism, competition, suffocating control, emotional neglect and abuse from their mothers. These women suffer from anxiety and depression, relationship problems, lack of confidence and difficulty with trust. They doubt their worth and ability to love. The forward describes the narcissistic mother, the competitive mother, the control freak mother, the confused mother, mothers who do not protect their daughters from violence or are themselves aggressive towards their daughters. The author describes self-help methods, which she developed in collaboration with her clients, aimed at changing lives, separating from traumatizing mothers, teaching women how to overcome childhood pain and learn to act in their own best interests.