Jacques Lacan, the preeminent interpreter of Freud, argues that the whole Freudian project can be reduced to a single question: what does it mean to be a father? The purpose of this book is to address such a difficult question from the perspective of Gestalt therapy, one of the foremost contemporary exponents of which is its author, Albert Rams, celebrated psychologist, psychotherapist for parents and children and trainer of therapists.
Being a Father Today is a profound reflection, encompassing a diverse range of perspectives, on paternity in the 21st century: a creation whose masculinity we should understand as a compromise with the truth, and which posits that the strength of the father is born from an awareness of his own vulnerability and of the overcoming of the patriarchal. It’s also a argument about the different modes of exercising paternity and a valuable manual for health professionals about how to cope with therapeutic work with parents and children. Above all, it’s a study about the experience of the author as a father, which has served as a route to self-knowledge, an opening for love and a means of giving the best of himself.
Albert Rams has been a psychologist, psychotherapist and trainer and supervisor of therapists since 1979. He’s an honorary member of the Spanish Association of Gestalt Therapy. He was one of the first gestalt therapists in Spain. He’s a guest professor in various training schools in the south of Europe and Spain. He’s one of the pioneers of music therapy and gestalt sex therapy. Albert Rams is the author of Gestalt Clinic: Metaphors of Journey (2001), Twenty-five Years of Gestalt: Memoirs of an Early Gestalt Therapist (2004) and Gestalt and Attention: Presence and Spirituality in the Therapeutic Experience (2015), as well as around twenty scientific articles.
