67th Annual Conference

Saturday, February 27

Afternoon Workshops

1:30 - 4:00 P.M.

Workshop 99

Fathers and Daughters: The Promise of Intimacy

Chair:

Shelley J. Korshak, M.D., CGP, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

The father-daughter relationship has significant impact on the daughter, and on her ability to create an intimate relationship for herself when she becomes an adult. This workshop presents a model for understanding the father-daughter relationship, and uses a process group experience to explore how to help the daughter complete her psychological development when their relationship has gone awry.

experiential-demonstration-didactic-sharing of work experiences

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify three stages of the father-daughter relationship.

2. List three or more interventions to facilitate forward movement when a daughter is stuck in the separation-individuation stage of her relationship with her father.

3. List three communications that may be useful for a daughter to make to her father or boyfriend.

4. Recognize the unresolved father-daughter relationship in the repetitive patterns of a daughter attempting to develop partnership for herself.

Course References:

Erikson, E. H. (1963). Childhood and society. Norton, New York.

Mahler, M. S., et al. (1975). The psychological birth of the human infant. Basic Books, Inc., New York.

Skolnick, M. R., & Green, Z. (2004). "The Denigrated Other: Diversity and Group Relations", in Group Dynamics, Organizational Irrationality, and Social Complexity: Group Relations Reader 3, ed. by Solomon Cytronbaum and Debra Noumair, A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, Jupiter, FLorida, pp. 117-130.