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Fathers Who Fail - Shame and Psychopathology in the Family System (Paperback)
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Fathers Who Fail - Shame and Psychopathology in the Family System (Paperback)
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Despite the burgeoning literature on the role of the father in
child development and on fathering as a developmental stage,
surprisingly little has been written about the psychiatrically
impaired father. In Fathers Who Fail, Melvin Lansky remedies this
glaring lacuna in the literature. Drawing on contemporary
psychoanalysis, family systems theory, and the sociology of
conflict, he delineates the spectrum of psychopathological
predicaments that undermine the ability of the father to be a
father. Out of his sensitive integration of the intrapsychic and
intrafamilial contexts of paternal failure emerges a richly
textured portrait of psychiatrically impaired fathers, of fathers
who fail. Lansky's probing discussion of narcissistic equilibrium
in the family system enables him to chart the natural history
common to the symptomatic impulsive actions of impaired fathers. He
then considers specific manifestations of paternal dysfunction
within this shared framework of heightened familial conflict and
the failure of intrafamilial defenses to common shame. Domestic
violence, suicide, the intensification of trauma, posttraumatic
nightmares, catastrophic reactions in organic brain syndrome, and
the murder of a spouse are among the major "symptoms" that he
explores. In each instance, Lansky carefully sketches the
progression of vulnerability and turbulence from the father's
personality, to the family system, and thence to the symptomatic
eruption in question. In his concluding chapter, he comments
tellingly on the unconscious obstacles - on the part of both
patients and therapists - to treating impaired fathers. The
obstacles cut across different clinical modalities, underscoring
the need for multimodal responses to fathers who fail.
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