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Idealization occurs when an ideal goal is presented as achieved, when it wasn't.
Mysticism Gellman, Jerome 2005
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Idealization often fills an aching and often frightening void when dads are absent or unreachable.
Peggy Drexler: A Fathers Instruction Manual: Accepting Dad For Who He Is; And Who He's Not 2009
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That approach comes under blistering fire in The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women Free Press, 2004 www.simonsays.com, a witty and irreverent critique of the unrealistic and guilt-inducing demands made on contemporary mothers, by scholars Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W.
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Idealization is a process of visualizing our ideal version of the plans that will eventually materialize in our objective world.
The Master Key System Charles F. Haanel 2008
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Idealization is a process of visualizing our ideal version of the plans that will eventually materialize in our objective world.
The Master Key System Charles F. Haanel 2008
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Idealization facilitates growth and development, enabling the child to identify with the strengths of a parent.
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Idealization is a process of visualizing our ideal version of the plans that will eventually materialize in our objective world.
The Master Key System Charles F. Haanel 2008
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Perhaps what these diaries provide is "a way of establishing an alternate identity that makes parenting more palatable," said Meredith W. Michaels, a philosophy professor at Smith College and the co-author of "The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women."
Parenting as performance art revisited M-mv 2005
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Idealization of outlaws is a continuing theme in the American psyche . . .
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Just recently, two new books have focussed on what might be called the home-work problem: "Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life" (Little, Brown; $25.95), by Daphne de Marneffe, and "The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women" (Free Press; $26), by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels.
02.04 M-mv 2004
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