Explorations in Fatherland

This book explores the role of fathers from a broadly psychoanalytic lens, looking at fatherhood from the evolving perspective of fathers, the rest of the family, and society as a whole.

Dr Judith Edwards is a retired consultant, psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist, and internationally published author, who worked for 35 years at the Tavistock Clinic. Her latest book, Grandmotherland, was published in 2024. She is interested in making psychoanalytic ideas more accessible to wider audiences, as she said in Psychoanalysis and Other Matters (Routledge): other matters matter.

1.The Idea and Fantasy of the Father Seen Through history 2. Having a Father and Being a Father 3. Fathers and Sons 4. Fathers and Daughters 5. Do Siblings Remember Fathers Differently? 6. Handing on in Identification, and Letting Go..Chh-Ch-Ch-Changes... 7. Having 'No Father': The Absent Father and the Single Parent 8. Fatherland: The Elephant in the Room 9. Being the Father to Our Own Stories: Seeing and Being Seen 10. The Stepfather 11. Rivalry with Fathers 12. Fathers in Poetry