1st Edition
Fatherhood Scenarios Development, Culture, Psychopathology, and Treatment
Fatherhood Scenarios offers a wide range of perspectives, including different cultural and ethnic perspectives and chapters considering the role of the father throughout the lifespan, including experiences of gay fathers, adoptive fathers, and disabled fathers.
With contributors from around the world representing diverse mental health disciplines, these chapters constitute a harmonious gestalt of knowledge, information, theory, and socio-clinical dimensions pertaining to fatherhood. The emphasis of all these sections is nonetheless the psychosocial tasks of fatherhood as it undergoes subtle and gradual transformation with the offspring’s growth through childhood and adolescence to full adulthood, including becoming a parent themselves. The book also traces the portrayal of fatherhood in popular media including television and movies keeping in mind their evolution and transformation over the past many decades.
Spanning a vast terrain of psychosocial concern, Fatherhood Scenarios will be of great appeal to mental health professionals, psychotherapists, child psychiatrists, and family welfare workers in practice and in training.
Acknowledgments
About the Editors and Contributors
Introduction
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
Becoming a father
Saurav Sengupta and David Kaye
PART I: DEVELOPMENTAL SCENARIOS
CHAPTER TWO
Father's role during adolescence
Robert Eberwein and Rama Rao Gogineni
CHAPTER THREE
Fathering adult children
Pirooz Sholevar and Ellen Sholevar
CHAPTER FOUR
Father’s becoming a grandfather
Pirooz Sholevar and Ellen Sholevar
CHAPTER FIVE
Father’s Death
Thomas Wolman
PART II: CULTURAL SCENARIOS
CHAPTER SIX
Latino fathers
Eugenio Rothe and Andres Pumariega
CHAPTER SEVEN
African American fathers
Lisa M Cullins, Martine Solages, Howard Crumpton and Shalice McKnight
CHAPTER EIGHT
Fathers on television
Thomas Parinello, Jeffrey Goldberg and Max Heinrich
PART III: EMERGING SCENARIOS
CHAPTER NINE
Stepfathers
Eugenio Rothe
CHAPTER TEN
Gay fathers
Peter Daniolos and T. Dawson Woodrum
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Learning from recollections of a disabled father
Daniel Gottleib and Chris Winfrey
Adoptive fathers
April Fallon and Virginia Brabender
PART IV: CLINICAL SCENARIOS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Father transferences in the clinical situation
Theodore Fallon
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Fathers’ role in mental health of children
Michael Shapiro
From the need of a father to father hunger
Rao Gogineni and Robert Eberwein
EPILOGUE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Visiting the father’s grave
Salman Akhtar and Andrew Smolar
Index
Biography
Rama Rao Gogineni, MD is Professor in Psychiatry at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He trained at the University of Pennsylvania, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Family Institute of Philadelphia, and Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has received numerous regional, national, and international awards and served as a volunteer advocate for many organizations. He is the editor of two previous books.
April E. Fallon, PhD, is a Professor at Fielding Graduate University and Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Drexel College of Medicine. She has co-authored seven books on group development and group therapy, adoption, and pregnancy. Additionally, she has written and researched on attachment, body image, eating disorders and child abuse.
Andres J. Pumariega, MD, has devoted his 40-plus-year career to children’s systems of care and cultural diversity in mental health. He held several teaching and administrative positions and chaired three departments of psychiatry. He has headed many paediatric psychiatry consultation-liaison services, directorships of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and chaired departments of psychiatry. He has over 250 scientific publications on culture, diversity, and disparities on children’s mental health.
Salman Akhtar, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has over 450 publications including 110 authored or edited books.
“Deftly interweaving the strains of child and family, social anthropology, modern biology, psychoanalysis and popular media studies, Fatherhood Scenarios offers a panoramic, yet deep view of paternity and its emotional vicissitudes. This tightly edited compendium will be highly informative to all mental health professionals and greatly enhance their therapeutic empathy and skills.”- Shahrzad Siassi, PH. D. Senior Psychoanalyst, New Center of Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Author, Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships (2018).
“As most of us know, it is easy to formulate the faults and deficits of fathers in our clinical work; but find developmental theory lacking when trying to imagine the optimum place a father fits in the developmental life of children, teens, and in fathers themselves. This volume seeks to address that dichotomy in our clinical and theoretical literature. Fatherhood Scenarios is a finely edited collection of essays addressing the emotional and cognitive challenges associated with paternity. With an orientation that shows equal respect to intrapsychic dynamics and sociocultural variables, the book tackles the father’s struggles with lifespan changes, adolescent turmoil, gender and sexual orientation difference and his own particular location in the demographic and cultural spectrum of our diverse society. The book promises to enhance knowledge, enrich empathic attunement and sharpen clinical skills.” - Timothy Dugan, M.D. Senior Consultant in Education. Cambridge Health Alliance. Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Assistant Clinical Professor, part-time Harvard Medical School
