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Psychologically unhealthy father-daughter relationships
sheri
#21 Posted : Monday, August 06, 2012 11:31:46 AM
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The guy has a point.
Intelligentsia
#22 Posted : Monday, August 06, 2012 12:00:07 PM
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What do people want?!
If a dad is aloof and not intetrested in his own child's day and general development, then the child refers to him as 'that guy who sits in the sofa at our place'. If the mbuyuz becomes a very pro-active parent in his own child's development as Ruth's dada has done, then it raises suspicions, jeez!
Let the dad be, am impressed by what he's done so far, giving up so much for the sake of Ruth and Ruth's successes and KShs 5m are dividends of true and great parenting that he's started harvesting.

Lets flip the coin: so all single mothers with close sons also have psychologically unhealthy mother-son relationships as well?
Tell it to the birds.
savant
#23 Posted : Monday, August 06, 2012 2:42:46 PM
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@Frangipani

For what I gathered (read googled), emotional incest results when a parent loves a child as a replacement for a partner.

Amunga would display aspects of transference - treating his daughter as a wife.
And Ruth would definitely manifest aspects of identity loss i.e. the inability to define what she wants as well as identity conflict as a result from being treated as a wife and other times as a daughter.

After reading through the article, I honestly don't think that's the case here.
Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.
- Rousseau.
Jump-steady
#24 Posted : Monday, August 06, 2012 2:55:07 PM
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Frangipani wrote:
My fellow Wazuans,

My academic background is partly in psychology and having read the story in today's Sunday Nation about Ruth Matete and her dad, I feel uneasy. From a therapist's perspective, it is a classic case of what in psychology is known as emotional incest.

The link is http://www.nation.co.ke/...8/-/bjtp7j/-/index.html

I would like to know what other Wazuans think. Regards.


I hope you are not counselling anybody though?Sad
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