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The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds

by Susan E. Schwartz

Father absence through a Jungian lens

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner: 2021 IAJS Book Award for Best Clinical Book

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Father absence through a Jungian lens

Susan E. Schwartz examines how absent or inadequate fathers can affect daughters’ inner lives, drawing on Jungian analytical psychology. The book brings together daughters’ accounts of insecurity, a fractured sense of self, and difficulty expressing their voices. Its subject sits at the intersection of family relationships and psychological experience, with the emphasis on how paternal absence is understood and described from the daughters’ perspective.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Jungian analytical psychology and psychotherapy.
  • Readers exploring the psychological effects of father-daughter relationships.
  • Readers seeking accounts centered on daughters’ experiences of paternal absence.

Themes

Father absence and family relationshipsDaughters’ sense of selfVoice and self-expressionJungian analytical psychology

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Book overview

This book investigates the impact of absent and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. It tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice.

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