Finding Our Fathers : How a Man's Life Is Shaped by His Relationship with His Father
Author: Samuel Osherson, Stephan B. Poulter
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ISBN: 0809293307
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books (08 May, 2001)
Sales Rank: 134,974
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Rating: 3 out of 5
Overall a good book, but rather reductionist
I could not relate to the many anecdotes provided by the author/psychologist of this book. Perhaps fathers and sons do have many unresolved issues regarding intimacy, anger, and roles, but it seems to me the author was pretty selective in finding those cases that helped support his views about the problematic father/son relationship. I was close to my father and grandfather, and both were vastly different men in terms of temperament, education, class, and culture, but none had the distinction of being undermined by their wives, or feeling like mechanized machines (even though my father was a machinest in a factory). I think Osherson may have spent too much time doing longitudinal studies at Harvard and too many hours in his office where his anticipations of finding antipathetic father/son relationships ended up as self fullfilling prophecies. Snippets of dialogue from therapy sessions seem to me very questionable in terms of their ecological validity. Additionally, the date of this book 1986 is telling. A lot has happened in the family constellation since then.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent
Absolutely excellent. Many works of this subject matter spew forth psychobabble and contain nothing useful or substantial. This book rocks. Similar Products
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