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The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
Contributor(s): Etchegoyen, Alicia (Editor), Trowell, Judith (Editor)
ISBN: 158391174X     ISBN-13: 9781583911747
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $52.20  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 2001
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Annotation: 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 br * the missing father br * loss of a father br * 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Men's Studies
- Family & Relationships | Parenting - Fatherhood
- Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis
Dewey: 306.874
LCCN: 2001035815
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.22" W x 9.24" (0.76 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Masculine
- Topical - Family
 
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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.