
Explorations in Fatherland
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Edwards draws on her rich clinical experience spanning over 30 years to look at the issues and problems around the role of the father in clinical work with a range of patients, spanning from classical psychoanalytic thinking to fiction, myth, and iconography. These multifaceted approaches allow us to explore the complexities of fatherhood for each unit of the family and to tease out both the problems and positives associated with fathers and fatherhood. Enriched with clinical vignettes, this book shares a new outlook on how patterns of manhood or personhood evolve over time and encourages the reader to not limit paternal function to sexual or cultural binaries.
At a time when the role of men in society is ever more under debate, Explorations in Fatherland offers a fascinating and multi-faceted exploration of a key role for men and offers guidance to clinicians, and anyone interested in exploring the notion of fatherhood.
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'Having already treated us to a truly original and highly engaging study about grandmotherhood, Dr. Judith Edwards has now provided us with a remarkably rich and comprehensive examination of the psychology of fatherhood. Drawing upon centuries of insights from poets, novelists, musicians, historians, scientists, and psychoanalysts, and brimming with many of her own memorable clinical insights, Edwards has crafted a creative exploration, which will be of deep relevance not only to every male who has, or will, become a father but, also, to every human being who might well be the child of a father.'Professor Brett Kahr, senior fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and honorary director of research at the Freud Museum London, as well as visiting professor of psychoanalysis and mental health at Regent's University London
'Judith Edwards has a gift for revealing the meaning in everyday events. She also has a gift for making links between clinical work and the insights of novelists, poets, scientists and others. This book on fathers, bringing together testimony from so many different sources, will be of interest to clinicians, but also to anyone concerned with what it means to be human. A worthy successor to Grandmotherland.'
Maria Rhode, professor emeritus of child psychotherapy, Tavistock Clinic, and child analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society
'Judith Edwards writes "Once you start talking you don't know what you'll say", and this is the result. You will not find any other book on fathers like this; a marvellous essay by an experienced and original psychoanalytical psychotherapist who wants to "set people's mind wandering." It contains poignant personal stories of their fathers from many contributors, plus Edwards' associations from literature, poetry, science, history, art, feminist philosophy, politics, film, music, broadcasting, and psychoanalysis. Dr Edwards has succeeded brilliantly in her "invitation to colleagues to carve out their own pathways".'
Dr Sebastian Kraemer, honorary consultant, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
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