Dad, Do You Love Me? How the Father Figure Influences the Life of an Adult Daughter

Psychotherapist Marina Markatun, for 40 years, has been observing complex family relationships in her office. She has come to believe that people often underestimate the role of the father in a daughter’s life. It is the father’s love and attention that largely shape the woman’s future: her attitude toward men, her self-esteem, and her ideas of what is good and bad. But what to do when the father is missing? A father’s detachment, leaving the family, infidelity, selfishness, excessive control—these are markers that destroy not only families, but also the lives of daughters who are already grown. Marina Markatun invites you to look at the root of the problems and to consider the daughter-father relationship from both perspectives. The book contains 14 stories; each is accompanied by the psychotherapist’s commentary, in which she explains the father’s behavior and offers recommendations for resolving conflict and finding healing. All the stories are real cases from her practice, and readers will find answers that matter to them.