Father Hunger

The culmination of more than two decades of study of the role of the father in a variety of naturalistic and clinical settings, Father Hunger explores the distinctive role of fathers in the normal development of children. For Herzog, the cha

James M. Herzog, M.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Hamburg, Germany.  He is an adult training and supervising analyst and a child and adolescent supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.  He is also a supervisory analyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. 

Introduction. Michael: No Face. Father Hunger and Children's Dreams. Michael: The Strange Nurse Dream. Fathering Daughters and Fathering Sons. Bart and Killer Walrus. Michael: Doing It. Michael: Looking for Father. Ali: The Mother Tongue. Ali: Opa and the Man Goose. The T Family. Dr. C: Trauma and Character. Etta: Something is Happening. Natalia and the Bacon Factory. Expectant Fatherhood. Tommy and the Black Lion. How Do Men Get into One Another? Boys Who Make Babies. Jonah: Someone Is Being Beaten. Afterword.