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Fathers' Daughters

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While "The Heroine's Journey" is undeniably the gold standard in Murdock's canon-- both for storytelling/film, self-help, and psychology -- Fathers' Daughters is a nice sequel. Any person wishing to further explore the effects of the patriarch on children, and specifically female children in a male-dominated society, can glean a lesson from this book. In it Murdock warns of the various paternal archetypes and commensurately, their daughters --the habits they tend to display, pitfalls, successes, and flaws--- and what changes one can personally make after identifying particular patterns to gain control of one's fate without being chronically indebted/plagued by the visions/perceived inadequacies of the God/Father. Very interesting, since most successful women/public figures, tend to be "Father's Daughters." Murdock addresses this observation, as well as the almost-clockwork breakdown of non-stop females emulating the UNSUSTAINABLE male route. Although many females emulate it in order to achieve certain levels of success, Murdock shows that this route is not healthy-- neither for males, females, nor the environment -- and learning to embrace certain elements of the feminine is necessary (albeit undervalued and almost wholly uncredited) for health and longevity --both of the individual, filial, and environmental levels.