Fatherhood Scenarios

Rama Rao Gogineni, MD is Professor in Psychiatry at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He trained at the University of Pennsylvania, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Family Institute of Philadelphia, and Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has received numerous regional, national, and international awards and served as a volunteer advocate for many organizations. He is the editor of two previous books.April E. Fallon, PhD, is a Professor at Fielding Graduate University and Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Drexel College of Medicine. She has co-authored seven books on group development and group therapy, adoption, and pregnancy. Additionally, she has written and researched on attachment, body image, eating disorders and child abuse.Andres J. Pumariega, MD, has devoted his 40-plus-year career to children’s systems of care and cultural diversity in mental health. He held several teaching and administrative positions and chaired three departments of psychiatry. He has headed many paediatric psychiatry consultation-liaison services, directorships of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and chaired departments of psychiatry. He has over 250 scientific publications on culture, diversity, and disparities on children’s mental health.Salman Akhtar, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has over 450 publications including 110 authored or edited books.

“Deftly interweaving the strains of child and family, social anthropology, modern biology, psychoanalysis and popular media studies, Fatherhood Scenarios offers a panoramic, yet deep view of paternity and its emotional vicissitudes. This tightly edited compendium will be highly informative to all mental health professionals and greatly enhance their therapeutic empathy and skills.”- Shahrzad Siassi, PH. D. Senior Psychoanalyst, New Center of Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Author, Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships (2018). “As most of us know, it is easy to formulate the faults and deficits of fathers in our clinical work; but find developmental theory lacking when trying to imagine the optimum place a father fits in the developmental life of children, teens, and in fathers themselves. This volume seeks to address that dichotomy in our clinical and theoretical literature. Fatherhood Scenarios is a finely edited collection of essays addressing the emotional and cognitive challenges associated with paternity. With an orientation that shows equal respect to intrapsychic dynamics and sociocultural variables, the book tackles the father’s struggles with lifespan changes, adolescent turmoil, gender and sexual orientation difference and his own particular location in the demographic and cultural spectrum of our diverse society. The book promises to enhance knowledge, enrich empathic attunement and sharpen clinical skills.” - Timothy Dugan, M.D. Senior Consultant in Education. Cambridge Health Alliance. Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Assistant Clinical Professor, part-time Harvard Medical School

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the Editors and ContributorsIntroductionPROLOGUECHAPTER ONEBecoming a father Saurav Sengupta and David Kaye PART I: DEVELOPMENTAL SCENARIOS CHAPTER TWOFather's role during adolescenceRobert Eberwein and Rama Rao Gogineni CHAPTER THREE Fathering adult children Pirooz Sholevar and Ellen SholevarCHAPTER FOUR Father’s becoming a grandfatherPirooz Sholevar and Ellen SholevarCHAPTER FIVE Father’s DeathThomas WolmanPART II: CULTURAL SCENARIOS CHAPTER SIX Latino fathersEugenio Rothe and Andres Pumariega CHAPTER SEVENAfrican American fathersLisa M Cullins, Martine Solages, Howard Crumpton and Shalice McKnight CHAPTER EIGHTFathers on television Thomas Parinello, Jeffrey Goldberg and Max HeinrichPART III: EMERGING SCENARIOSCHAPTER NINEStepfathersEugenio Rothe CHAPTER TENGay fathersPeter Daniolos and T. Dawson WoodrumCHAPTER ELEVENLearning from recollections of a disabled fatherDaniel Gottleib and Chris WinfreyCHAPTER TWELVEAdoptive fathersApril Fallon and Virginia Brabender PART IV: CLINICAL SCENARIOS CHAPTER THIRTEENFather transferences in the clinical situationTheodore FallonCHAPTER FOURTEENFathers’ role in mental health of children Michael ShapiroCHAPTER FIFTEENFrom the need of a father to father hungerRao Gogineni and Robert Eberwein EPILOGUECHAPTER SIXTEENVisiting the father’s graveSalman Akhtar and Andrew SmolarIndex