Stepparenting: Creating and Recreating Families in America Today

ISBN-13: 9780881631760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 360 str.

Stanley H. Cath; Moisy Shopper

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In an era when teachers commonly report that up to half of the children in their classes come from multiple homes and have multiple caretakers, the special psychological challenges of step-parenting have never been in greater need of examination. As thoughtful clinicians have long known, step-parenting is among the most complicated of psychological projects: it may simultaneously be a multi-faceted burden and a spur to personal autonomy, deepened sensitivity to others, and newfound competence as a nurturer. Among the thousands of divorced people who remarry each year, most - despite their best resolve to live in the present - persist in reassessing the price of separation, especially as they come to appreciate the fact that divorce is seldom a total break for their children.

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Preface: Some Reflections on Shakespeare and the History of Family Life. Shopper, Introduction: Stepfathers: Varieties and Job Descriptions. Tessman, Some Steppaternal Possibilities. Rothe, Some Important Contributions of the Stepfather to the Psychological Development of the Boy. Cath, Between Marriages: A Period of Dread. Nickman, Affect Tolerance: A Crucial Requirement for Substitute Parenting. Cath, The Henry VIII Syndrome: The Mystical Biological Bond versus a Stepfather's "Watching Her Spoil Her Own." Brenner, The Contemporary Stepfather's Search for Legitimacy. Solomon, Fear of Maternal Aspects of a Stepmother: A Homage to My Stepmother, a Woman Who Transcended Living with an Adolescent Stepdaughter. Rothe, The Challenge of Maintaining the Fathering Role After Divorce: Overcoming Shame. Perdigao, The Stepfather in a Reconstituted Family. Cath, Countertransferences: Stepfathers in Midlife and Beyond. Cath, The Vantage Points of Two Stepsisters in Midlife. Cath, The Death of a Stepfather: A Funeral that Cuts All Ties. Galatzer-Levy, Stepfathers: Clinical Explorations. Cath, The Ready Acceptance of a Stepfather: "I Learned to Love Him Very Slowly." Silverman, Stepdaughters and Stepfathers: Living Together in a Haunted House. Cath, A Parade of Pseudostepfathers: Altruism and Gratification in a Surrogate Stepfather. Blackman, On Childless Stepparents. Friedman, Feldman, Naivete: Love and Hate Factors in the Outcome of Stepfatherhood. Tessman, Small Step, Giant Step: A Stepfather. Shopper, Incest: What is it, and How did it Come to Be? Wurmser, Oedipal Reenactments with Stepmother and Stepfather: Incest and Splitting of the Superego. Cath, "Reluctant but Necessary Rape" in the Life of a Tween. Mehta, Birthlands, Steplands, and Adopted Lands: The Immigrant's Tryst with Psychogeographic Maps and Territories. Lansky, The Stepfather in Sophocles' Electra. Shopper, Legal Rights of Stepparents: A Concept in Development. Cath, Some Forensic, Financial, and Transference Considerations: A Stepdaughter as "Family Brick." Burstajn, Boersma, Forensic and Therapeutic Issues in Stepparent Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. Cath, Shopper, Epilogue: The Therapeutic Importance of 'Recognition Processes' in Attachment, Detachment, and Reattachment Experiences.