The Father-Daughter Dance - Softcover

Offers a compelling exploration of father-daughter relationships. It examines how the issues that arise between the young daughter and her father recur between the adult daughter and her lovers, husbands and employers, and describes the six patterns of father-daughter interaction, or "dances": the lost father and his yearning daughter; the abusive father and his victim daughter; the pampering father and his spoiled daughter; the pygmalion father and his companion daughter; the ruined father and his rescuing daughter; and the anguished father and his angry daughter. The authors show that, by gaining insight into the forces that create these patterns, fathers and daughters can break out of the cycles and "change the steps". The book offers a new way of looking at relationships, not only between fathers and daughters, but between all men and women.