In her book, Dr. Schwartz (2020) investigates the psychological and symbolic ramifications of the personal father’s absence throughout a daughter’s lifespan.

Dr. Schwartz explores the negative father complex and other approaches to the absent father psychological wound from a repertoire of psychodynamic authors. When a daughter has suffered from the wound of the absent father, physically or emotionally, she lacks the adequate mirroring of herself as a separate and individual self, explained Schwartz (p. 36).

Examining daughters both personally and collectively affected by the lack of a father, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters is highly relevant for those wanting to understand the complex dynamics of daughters and fathers to become their authentic selves.

Together, we will undergo a journey through the book and we will go on an inner quest to retrieve the positive inner father.

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