Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children

ISBN-13: 9780881632590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 334 str.

James Herzog

Opis

James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the clinical literature of psychoanalysis. We live in an era when a great many children grow up without a father, or, worse still, with fathers who traumatically abuse them. Yet, society continues to ignore the emotional price that children pay, and often continue to pay throughout their lives, for this tragic state of affairs. At the heart of this lack of compassionate responsibility is our collective failure to comprehend the distinctive role of fathers in the normal development of children. Father Hunger will change this situation. First drawn to his topic by observing the recurring nightmares of clinic-referred children of newly separated parents - nightmares in which the children's fear of their own aggression was coupled with desperate wishes for their fathers' return - Herzog went on to spend more than two decades exploring the role of the father in a variety of naturalistic settings. He discovered that the characteristically intense manner in which fathers engaged their children provided

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Michael: No Face
3. Father Hunger and Children's Dreams
4. Michael: The Strange Nurse Dream
5. Fathering Daughters and Fathering Sons
6. Bart and Killer Walrus
7. Michael: Doing It
8. Michael: Looking for Father
9. Ali: The Mother Tongue
10. Ali: Opa and the Man Goose
11. The T Family
12. Dr. C: Trauma and Character
13. Etta: Something is Happening
14. Natalia and the Bacon Factory
15. Expectant Fatherhood
16. Tommy and the Black Lion
17. How Do Men Get into One Another?
18. Boys Who Make Babies
19. Jonah: Someone Is Being Beaten
20: Afterword
 

O autorze

James M. Herzog, M.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Hamburg, Germany.  He is an adult training and supervising analyst and a child and adolescent supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.  He is also a supervisory analyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.