Real and Imaginary Fathers: Development, Transference, and Healing

by Salman Akhtar (Contributor), Henri Parens (Editor), Anni Bergman (Contributor)

"This is a day and age of diminished presence of the nuclear family, a high incidence of divorce, multiple diverse family arrangements, an increase in single-parent families, and an abundance of childhood distress. Absent fathers are ubiquitous. It has become urgent, demanding, pressing that we understand the father’s contribution and what is lost in his absence. It requires our immediate and most serious attention."
--Ruth M.S. Fischer

Paperback

First published January 28, 2005

About the author

Salman Akhtar is an Indian-American psychoanalyst practicing in the United States. He is an author and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.