A primary benefit of father-child groups is to the father. The group can enhance the father-child connection, making it less likely for the father to abandon the child and additionally provide a context in which unconscious rage can be identified. This would assist the father in developing empathic responses to his child rather than acting out his unconscious feelings of shame and anger. Dr. Moradi currently is in private practice of adult, child and adolescent psychiatry, teaches psychodynamic family therapy at Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, and is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. A psychoanalytic perspective on the forgotten parent.
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