Lost Fathers
Subtitle: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss
Publisher: Hazelden
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781592851553
Subjects: Religion: general; Fathers and daughters; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Death / Grief / Consolation; Young women; Self-Help; General; Family Relationships; Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Emotions; Adult children; Daughters; Psychology
First sentence: I sleep in the arms of a ghost.
Description: Commitment. Trust. Intimacy. Self-confidence. Independence. These are critical areas of personal development in the passage from adolescence to adulthood. However, this path toward self-identity can become particularly difficult for women to navigate when, as adolescents, they lose one of the most important relationships of their life: their relationship with their father. Written expressly for adult women, Lost Fathers is a healing authoritative guide to understanding how behaviors, relationships, and sense of self in adulthood are shaped by the experience of losing one's father during adolescence to death, divorce, abandonment, incarceration, or addiction. With gentle expertise, Laraine Herring b lends poignant personal stories, the latest information in developmental psychology, and guided writing exercises in this much-needed, therapeutic guide.