Mother-Son Relationship


Art Film Literature


Art


Gorky, Arshile     The Artist and His Mother
Kollwitz, Käthe     Woman with Dead Child
Neel, Alice     Loneliness
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer


Film


    50/50
    Alice Neel
    All About My Mother
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Awakenings
    The Body Beautiful
    Children Underground
    The Color of Paradise
    Common Threads
    The Deep
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Marvin's Room
    Maurice
    A Midwife's Tale
    Mother and Son
    My Left Foot
    My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv som hund]
    Ordinary People
    Pieces of April
    Requiem for a Dream
    The Secret Garden
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    Sixth Happiness
    Smoke Signals
    Stevie
    Terms of Endearment
    Tsotsi
    Vera Drake
    The War Zone
    A Woman's Tale


Literature


Abse, Dannie     Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
    Exit
    A Poet in the Family
    A Winter Visit
    X-ray
Akhmatova, Anna     Requiem
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Anonymous,     Hurricane Zone
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Doctor's Wife
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Armstrong, Lance     It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Author, Unknown     Indian Poem
Axline, Virginia M.     Dibs: In Search of Self
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bakker, Gerbrand     The Twin
Bang, Mary Jo     Elegy
Barker, Pat     Another World
Barnes, Julian     Arthur and George
Bennett, Alan     Smut: Two Unseemly Stories
Bentley, James     Albert Schweitzer. The Enigma
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Bly, Carol     Gunnar's Sword
Boccaccio, Giovanni     Federigo's Falcon
Brancato, Robin F.     Winning
Brown, Christy     My Left Foot, excerpt from
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Vanishing Eye
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron     Lord Byron's Don Juan
Cambor, Kathleen M.     The Book of Mercy
Campo, Rafael     The Poetry of Healing
Carey, Peter     True History of the Kelly Gang
    The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Carr, Caleb     The Alienist
Carver, Raymond     Where the Groceries Went
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Bishop
    The Seagull
    The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
    Volodya
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Cohen, Matt     Elizabeth and After
Cohen, Robert     Inspired Sleep
Courtemanche, Gil     A Good Death
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Culkin, Jennifer     A Final Arc of Sky: a Memoir of Critical Care
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Dark, Alice Elliott     In the Gloaming
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
Day, Sarah     Children's Ward
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Durant, Penny Raife     When Heroes Die
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eig, Jonathan     Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
    The Lifted Veil
Esterhazy, Peter     Helping Verbs of the Heart
Euripides,     Medea
Farrington, Carolyn G.     Sea of Glass
Ferrara, Emily     The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del dolore)
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Foer, Jonathan Safran     Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     Where Angels Fear to Tread
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Fries, Kenny     The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Living to Tell the Tale
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Giono, Jean     The Horseman on the Roof
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gordon, Mary     Living at Home
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Greenberg, Joanne     Hunting Season
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Guterson, David     Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    A Spot of Bother
Haigh, Jennifer     The Condition
Hall, Donald     Out the Window
Hamilton, Virginia     The Planet of Junior Brown
Harvor, Elisabeth     Fortress of Chairs
Heaney, Seamus     Out of the Bag
Highsmith, Patricia     Strangers on a Train
Hill, Susan     In the Springtime of the Year
Hoagland, Tony     Lucky
    Medicine
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Homes, A. (Amy) M.     Jack
Hornby, Nick     How To Be Good
    A Long Way Down
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hsun, Lu     Medicine
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Hutner, Elizabeth Hall     Life with Sam
Huxley, Aldous     Island
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Ibsen, Henrik     Ghosts
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Jones, Thom     40, Still at Home
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    Love and Modern Medicine
    Other Women's Children
    Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
Koch, Christopher     The Doubleman
Kumin, Maxine     Inside the Halo and Beyond
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
    Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Landvik, Lorna     The Great Mysterious
LaPlante, Alice     Turn of Mind
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     Odour of Chrysanthemums
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
Long, David     The Inhabited World
Maxwell, William     They Came Like Swallows
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCann, Richard     Ghost Letters
    Mother of Sorrows
McCormick, Patricia     My Brother's Keeper
McFarland, Dennis     Singing Boy
McGovern, Cammie     Eye Contact
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Morris, Winifred     Secret Numbers
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Murray, T. Jock     Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
Mysko, Madeleine     Bringing Vincent Home
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
    Under the Eye of the Clock
O'Brien, Edna     The Creature
O'Connor, Flannery     Everything That Rises Must Converge
Olds, Sharon     The Wellspring
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Paterson, Katherine     Park's Quest
Peck, Richard E.     Something for Joey
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picoult, Jodi     House Rules
Platonov, Andrey Platonovich     The Third Son
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon)     Chekhov. A Spirit Set Free
Quindlen, Anna     Black and Blue
Rankine, Claudia     Plot
Ray, David     The Endless Search: A Memoir
Raz, Hilda     What Becomes You
Reynolds, Marilyn     Too Soon for Jeff
Rosen, David     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sacks, Oliver     Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Scannell, Kate     Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic
Schneiderman, Henry     Father, Doctor, and the Great City: Poems and Drawings 1964-2003
Schoemperlen, Diane     Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Referred Pain
Sebold, Alice     The Lovely Bones
Sedgwick, Marcus     The Foreshadowing
Selzer, Richard     Down from Troy
    Minor Surgery
    Tom and Lily
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Shafer, Audrey     Sleep Talker
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    Richard III
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Simmons, Dan     The River Styx Runs Upstream
Simmons, Ernest J.     Chekhov. A Biography
Skloot, Floyd     In the Shadow of Memory
    A World of Light
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stein, Michael     This Room Is Yours
Stone, Robert     Absence of Mercy
Styron, William     A Tidewater Morning
Swift, Graham     Tomorrow
Taylor, Kate     Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Thon, Melanie Rae     First, Body
Tomey, Ingrid     Nobody Else Has to Know
Tregebov, Rhea     The Proving Grounds
Updike, John     Endpoint and Other Poems
Urquhart, Jane     Away
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vivante, Arturo     By the Bedside
    Last Rites
Wagner, Shelly     The Andrew Poems
Wait, Lea     Finest Kind
Wallace, David Foster     Incarnations of Burned Children
Weishaus, Joel     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Grief
Wilson, Jonathan     Dead Ringers
Winter, Sarah     Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Wolff, Tobias     This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Wright, Richard     Black Boy
Zeidenstein, S., ed.     Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children