This book will give insight into the father-daughter relationship.The father-daughter dyad, first alluded to in Freud's developmental theory, had received little specific attention in the psychoanalytic and research literature. Yet, according to object relations theory, children develop attachments to their fathers during their first years of life. A careful review of the literature suggests that father-daughter attachment is significant in the development of a daughter's object relations. The study examined the theoretical and empirical literature on attachment, object relations, and the...