Published in 1990 (first published 1981)
291 pages
Colette Dowling is an American writer. She was raised in Baltimore and got a BA from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., 1958. Dowling has published eight books, including The Cinderella Complex, an international best-seller translated into 23 languages. She has written essays and articles for The New York Times Magazine, New York, Harpers and Esquire.
In 2004 Dowling graduated with a master’s degree in clinical social work from The Smith College School for Social Work. Following that she entered training in psychoanalysis at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York, receiving her certificate in psychoanalysis in 2009. She works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan, and continues to write.
What is this book about?
The Cinderella Complex offers women a real opportunity to achieve the emotional independence that means so much more than a new job or a new love. It can help you no matter what your age or your goals. You cannot read it without changing the way you think – and maybe the way you live. This book discusses the psychological desire of many women to be taken care of, to have someone else take the responsibility for them, and the need for women to reeducate themselves out of such dependency
