Stepparenting (eBook, PDF)

Creating and Recreating Families in America Today
Redaktion: Cath, Stanley H.; Shopper, Moisy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 stepparenting have never been in greater need of examination. As thoughtful clinicians have long known, stepparenting is among the most complicated of psychological projects: it may simultaneously be a multifaceted 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.

Stepparenting is a comprehensive exploration of the process of reconstructing families. More specifically, it is a book about the perils and promise of stepparenting, a caretaking role that may be more challenging than biologically given child rearing. Contributors follow people as they try to reevaluate past misunderstandings and acclimate to new parenting contexts and obligations. Editors Cath and Shopper have taken pains to offer a balanced purview that includes both successful and maladaptive instances of stepparenting. Of special note are the clincal examples throughout the book that chart the extended periods of slow, creative learning experienced by parents and children, biological and step, as they test the waters of new family systems and try to elicit newly attuned responses from each other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135827809
• Artikelnr.: 40186467

Autorenporträt

Stanley H. Cath, M.D., is Medical Director of the Family Advisory Service and Treatment Center, Belmont, Massachusetts, and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cath is senior coeditor of Father and Child: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives (1982) and Fathers and Their Families (Analytic Press, 1989). Moisy Shopper, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, St. Louis University School of Medicine, and Training and Supervising Analyst (child and adult), St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

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.