Fathers and Their Families

Stanley H. Cath, M.D., is Medical Director of the Family Advisory SErvice and Treatment Center, Belmont, Massachusetts. A faculty member of the Boston University School of Medicine and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, he was formerly Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine.Alan Gurwitt, M.D., is Lecturer, Cambridge Hospital, Harvard University and Associate Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center. He is a faculty member of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Hartford Child Psychiatry Training Consortium.Linda Gunsberg, Ph.D., is a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A member of the Editorial Board of the journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry, she is in private practice in New York City.

• I: Development Revised 1. Fatherhood and Father-Child Relationships: Five Years of Research, Lamb, Oppenhein 2. The Paternal Imago, Lansky 3. Fatherhood from the Perspective of Object Relations Theory and Relational Systems Theory, Muir 4. Fathers as Single Parents: Object Relations Beyond Mother, Neubauer 5. Toiletry Revisited: An Integration of Developing Concepts and the Father's Role in Toilet Training, Shopper 6. Readiness for Grandfatherhood and the Shifting Tide, Cath II: Transition to Fatherhood 7. Tomorrow's Fathers: The Anticipation of Fatherhood, Gerson 8.Risk Factors in the Transition to Fatherhood, Osofsky, Culp 9. Flight from Fatherhood, Gurwitt III: Father-Daughter Relationships 10. Fathers and Daughters: Early Tones, Later Echoes, Tessman 11. Paternal Influence in Early Child Development, Pacella 12.The Paternal Possibility: The Father's Contribution to the Adolescent Daughter When the Mother is Disturbed and a Denigrated Figure, Balsam IV: Father-Son Relationships 13. The Riddle of Little Hans, Ross 14.Lincoln and the Fathers: Reflections on Idealization, Strozier, Cath 15. Calcium Light Night and Other Early Memories of Charles Ives, Feder 16. Overstimulation by a Father: An Alternative View of Charles Ives, Deutsch V: Cultural and Other Variations 17. Turkish Fathers and Their Families: A Study of Fathers and Their Families in a Transitional Society, Volkan, Cevik 18. Black Fathers, Comer 19. Papi, or the Child is Father to the Man, Palmeri 20. The Nurturing Male: A Longitudinal Study of Primary Nurturing Fathers, Pruett VI: Disrupted Families 21. So Near and Yet So Far: The Nonresident Father, Michaels 22. The Noncustodial Father: An Application of Solomonic Wisdom, Solnit 23. Divorce and Fathers: Some Intrapsychic Factors Affecting Outcome, Atkins VII: Treatment Challenges 24. Paternity and Transference: The Fatherhood of a Child Therapist, Wallace 25. Factors Affecting the Preoedipal and Oedipal Paternal Relationship in Girls: The Collusion to Exclude Father, Galenson 26.Issues in Fathering and How They are Reflected in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Men, Gunsberg 27. Fathers of Psychotic Children: Clinical Observations and Approaches to Treatment, Schwartzman 28. Conflict and Resistance in the Treatment of Psychiatrically Hospitalized Fathers, Lansky, Simenstad

"Fathers and Their Families is an essential companion volume to Father and Child. It brings into operational perspective the rich complexity of influences and interaction necessary for understanding the variety of roles fathers play in the dynamics of today's family. There is always an ongoing tension and unavoidable confrontation between traditional models and new roles as the clinician searches for an understanding of the individual. The perspective on fathers given in this volume, arising as it does from a consideration of development as a life-span process of ongoing interactions within the context of a specific and unique interactive system, brings an appreciation of that variation, in both individuals and group systems, that defines individual uniqueness. The contributors bring a brilliant new depth and richness to our conceptualization of the father in the family - one that the reader cannot escape and the clinician cannot be without."- Louis Sander, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, University of Colorado"This scholarly book extends the research of this pioneering group into an area whose importance has become increasingly clear at psychoanalytic research seminars over the past decade: the role of fathers in psychological structure formation. It contains rich clinical and research material showing how developmental failures may result from either the loss of the father or the excessive devaluation of him. It addresses timely, essential questions: How can the oedipal phase be resolved in fatherless families? In the absence of a father, how can the young girl or boy experience the gleam in the father's eye that is so necessary to the formation of core identity? Such theoretical reflections grow out of a recent emphasis on the father's unique contributions to the psychological development of his offspring. And such reflections, in turn, are crucial to our expanding knowledge of psychological development across the life cycle. Finally, the reevaluation of the father's role within the family may promote greater success in therapy. On all these counts, we are indebted to Cath, Gurwitt, Gunsberg, and the contributors to Fathers and Their Families for their cogent contribution to a new area of scientific inquiry."- Theodore B. Cohen, M.D., Chairman, Vulnerable Child Discussion Group, American Psychoanalytic Association"[T]his large and comprehensive book is a clear exposition of the current understanding of the father's dynamic influence on the child, both in direct relation to the child and in relation to the family system. . . . It is a must for all mental health professionals who work with men."- Journal of Clinical Psychiatry