The two central tenets of John L. Hart's fascinating work, Becoming a Father are that a father is crucial to the emotional and social development of children and the act of fathering is important to the life and soul development of men. National reviews.
John L. Hart, Ph.D has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 40 years, starting in Vietnam where he was a psychology specialist. He received his doctorate from the University of Southern California. John is an internationally respected lecturer, has been a consultant to the nation of Norway for their Fathering Project, and maintained a private practice in Los Angeles for twenty years. He is the author of Becoming a Father from HCI Books, co-author of Modern Eclectic Therapy (Springer), and was mentored by the renowned poets Robert Bly and William Stafford.