Collection: Naomi Stadlen

Naomi Stadlen, who died June 2025, aged 82, worked as an existential psychotherapist in private practice, specialising in seeing mothers and parent-couples. She taught and supervised at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and ran Mothers Talking, a weekly discussion group, for many years. Her books on motherhood have been hugely popular. Further details at www.naomistadlen.com

"Naomi’s books on motherhood… are full of simple and profound points I had not thought of, and I find them fascinating." Hilary Mantel

Her books are:

• What Mothers Do – especially when it looks like nothing (2004)
• How Mothers Love – and how relationships are born (2011)
• What Mothers Learn – without being taught (2020)
• Why Grandmothers Matter (2023)
• A Grand Quarrel (2025)