The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)

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. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 SERIES TITLE......Page 4 TITLE......Page 7 COPYRIGHT......Page 8 CONTENTS......Page 11 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 13 FOREWORD......Page 17 1. SETTING THE SCENE......Page 21 2. PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS ABOUT FATHERS......Page 36 3. FATHERS IN MODERN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND IN SOCIETY......Page 59 4. FATHERS IN THE INTERNAL WORLD......Page 79 5. LETTING FATHERS IN......Page 102 6. FOREVER FATHER’S DAUGHTER......Page 115 7. GRANDFATHERS......Page 126 8. ON BECOMING A FATHER......Page 137 9. MISSING FATHERS......Page 151 10. FATHERS AND THE TRANSGENERATIONAL IMPACT OF LOSS......Page 163 11. FATHERLESS SONS......Page 173 12. IDENTIFICATION AND DIS-IDENTIFICATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEXUAL IDENTITY......Page 185 13. THE ADOPTIVE FATHER......Page 200 14. FATHERS AND DISABILITY......Page 217 CONCLUDING COMMENTS......Page 236 Index......Page 237 Foreword -- Anton Obholzer -- 1. Setting the scene -- Judith Trowell -- 2. Psychoanalytic ideas about fathers -- Alicia Etchegoyen -- 3. Fathers in modern psychoanalysis and in society: the role of the father and child development -- Mary Target and Peter Fonagy -- 4. Fathers in the internal world: from boy to man to father -- M. Fakhry Davids -- 5. Letting fathers in -- Maureen Marks -- 6. Forever father's daughter: the Athene -- Antigone complex -- Ronald Britton -- 7. Grandfathers -- Abraham Brafman -- 8. On becoming a father: reflections from infant observation -- Ricky Emanuel -- 9. Missing fathers: hope and disappointment -- Biddy Youell -- 10. Fathers and the transgenerational impact of loss -- Paul Barrows and Kate Barrows. Considering the importance of fathers in various situations, and against the background of high divorce rates and new family structures, 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. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.