Research Catalog

Title

Becoming a father : contemporary, social, developmental, and clinical perspectives / Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Michael J. Diamond, Martin Greenberg, editors.

Publication

New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shapiro, Jerrold Lee.
• Diamond, Michael J., 1944-
• Greenberg, Martin, 1941 January 26-

Description

xxiv, 381 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Springer series, focus on men ; v. 8

Uniform Title

Springer series, focus on men ; v. 8.

Subject

• Fathers
• Fathers > Psychology
• Father and child
• Father-Child Relations
• Fathers > psychology
• Fathers
• fathers
• Father and child
• Fathers > Psychology
• Vaterschaft
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Vaderschap
• Vader-kind-relaties
• Zuigelingen
• Pares i fills > Psicologia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-373) and index.

Contents

• I. The social perspective. Sociocultural dimensions. Warnings (poem) / Brad Sachs -- The changing roles of fathers / Michael E. Lamb -- The paternal presence / Kyle D. Pruett -- Bringing in fathers : the reconstruction of mothering / Diane Ehrensaft -- Breadwinner (poem) / Brad Sachs -- The mother's role in promoting fathering behavior / Pamela L. Jordon -- Preventing parental deprivation / Henry B. Biller -- On becoming a single father with custody / Geoffrey L. Greif -- Men and high-risk childbearing / Katharyn A. May -- Late-timed fatherhood : determinants and consequences for children and families / Ross D. Parke and Brian Neville. Applied interventions. Late at night (poem) / David Devus -- When men are pregnant / Jerrold Lee Shapiro -- Support for fathers : a model for hospital-based parenting programs / Peggy Shecket -- Fatherhood, numbness, and emotional self-awareness / Ronald F. Levant -- Pregnant father (poem) / Brad Sachs -- Teaching responsible fathering / Charles A. Ballard and Martin Greenburg -- Teen fathers : the search for the father / Martin Greenburg and Henry Brown.
• II. The developmental perspective. Personal experience. Blind date (poem) / Brad Sachs -- Three tries to get it right / Lawrence Peltz -- Essay for Father's Day / Lawrence Kutner -- The "new" father--and the old : understanding the relational struggle of fathers / Sam Osherson -- A coming-to-birth song (poem) / David Debus -- The father wound : implications for expectant fathers / Joseph H. Pleck. Psychological issues. Engrossment revisited : fathers are still falling in love with their newborn babies / Alan P. Bader -- Premature fathers : lone wolves? / W. Ernest Freud -- The emergence of the father as the watchful protector of the mother-infant dyad / Michael J. Diamond.
• III. The clinical perspective. Psychodynamic dimensions. Little by little as your body forms and buoys (poem) / David Debus -- Shifting patterns of fathering in the first year of life : on intimacy between fathers and their babies / Judith Partnow Hyman -- Becoming a father : a psychoanalytic perspective on the forgotten parent / Michael J. Diamond -- Some reflections on adaptive grandiosity in fatherhood / Peter Wolfson. Treatment issues. The male seahorse gets to be (poem) / David Debus -- Aspects of prospective fatherhood / Alan R. Gurwitt -- A delicate balance : fatherhood and psychological transformation : a psychoanalytic perspective / William S. Pollack -- Turbulent healing : the challenge of doing therapy during the transition for fatherhood / Brad Sachs.

ISBN

• 0826184006
• 9780826184009

LCCN

94039952

OCLC

• ocm31610148
• 31610148
• SCSB-2056324

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library