The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 256 стор.

It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish, and that the father is an important part of this.

Issues such as high divorce rates, new family structures, increased mobility, women's liberation and contraception are very common in society. This book sets out to explore what has happened to men and to fathers during all these changes and transitions. Judith Trowell and Alicia Etchegoyen, along with an array of renowned contributors, consider the importance of fathers in various situations, including:

  • the role of the father at different stage of children's development
  • the missing father
  • loss of a father
  • grandfathers.

It is argued that the father is important, not only to support the main carer (usually the mother) but also to provide a caring, thinking, comfortable, confident presence.

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Setting the scene
3
Psychoanalytic ideas about fathers
20
the role
45
from boy to man to father
67
Letting fathers in
93
the AtheneAntigone complex
107
Grandfathers
119
reflections from infant observation
131
hope and disappointment
147
Fathers and the transgenerational impact of loss
161
Identification and disidentification in the development
186
The adoptive father
203
Fathers and disability
222
Concluding comments
243
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