Article: 'Each father shapes the life of a son in a different way.' (interview with psychologist Samuel Osherson)

"Each father shapes the life of a son in a different way'

There are many types of fathers, and each shapes the life of a son in a different way.

There is the angry father whom many men carry around in their psyches well into their 30s and 40s. These men talk about their fathers as having been alienated from and disappointed in them. Often they are talking about their internal images of their fathers that got frozen in time: The father and son got caught around competitiveness, around the fear of each other--and the son couldn't move past that. The image of the father as very judgmental can be transferred over to the workplace, where men may see their ...

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