Mothers and Sons

The mythology surrounding the mother/son relationship is embedded in the social structure. Women have been collusive in their silence, thus protecting the status quo of male supremacy. The conflict for female family therapists is compared to that of mothers of sons, as they seesaw between the social injunction to he1 individuals achieve autonomy, and the simultaneous injunction to help them adjust to the functional needs of social conditions. A full-length case demonstrating a feminist treatment of a mother/son relationship is included.