The failure of a father-daughter relationship can send a girl into adulthood convinced she is without worth, doomed to repeat this failure professionally and personally. Yet many women learn to overcome this - and each has a lesson to teach all those who lacked a father's recognition and love. These lessons and the painful experiences and triumphs that led to them are the subject of The Unavailable Father. Dr. Sarah Simms Rosenthal shares such women's intimate stories, helps readers identify their own patterns of behavior, and reveals how these women learned to move on.