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

CHAPTER TWELVE

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

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

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

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.