Stepparenting : creating and recreating families in America today / edited by Stanley H. Cath, Moisy Shopper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Some Reflections on Shakespeare and the History of Family Life -- Introduction: Stepfathers: Varieties and Job Descriptions / Moisy Shopper -- Developmental Considerations. Some Steppaternal Possibilities / Lora Heims Tessman. Some Important Contributions of the Stepfather to the Psychological Development of the Boy / Eugenio M. Rothe. Between Marriages: A Period of Dread / Stanley H. Cath. Affect Tolerance: A Crucial Requirement for Substitute Parenting / Steven L. Nickman. The "Henry VIII" Syndrome: The Mystical Biological Bond Versus a Stepfather's "Watching Her Spoil Her Own" / Stanley H. Cath. The Contemporary Stepfather's Search for Legitimacy / Ira Brenner. Fear of Maternal Aspects of a Stepmother: A Homage to My Stepmother, a Woman Who Transcended Living with an Adolescent Stepdaughter / Brenda Clorfene Solomon. The Challenge of Maintaining the Fathering Role After Divorce: Overcoming Shame / Eugenio M. Rothe. The Stepfather in a Reconstituted Family / H. Gunther Perdigao. Countertransferences: Stepfathers in Midlife and Beyond / Stanley H. Cath. The Vantage Points of Two Stepsisters in Midlife / Stanley H. Cath. The Death of a Stepfather: A Funeral That Cuts All Ties / Stanley H. Cath -- Clinical Dimensions. Stepfathers: Clinical Explorations / Robert M. Galatzer-Levy. The Ready Acceptance of a Stepfather: "I Learned to Love Him Very Slowly" / Stanley H. Cath. Stepdaughters and Stepfathers: Living Together in a Haunted House / Martin A. Silverman. A Parade of Pseudostepfathers: Altruism and Gratification in a Surrogate Stepfather / Stanley H. Cath. On Childless Stepparents / Jerome S. Blackman. Naivete: Love and Hate Factors in the Outcome of Stepfatherhood / Henry J. Friedman and Jamie L. Feldman. Small Step, Giant Step: A Stepfather / Lora Heims Tessman -- Incest. Incest: What Is It, and How Did It Come to Be? / Moisy Shopper. Oedipal Reenactments with Stepmother and Stepfather: Incest and Splitting of the Superego / Leon Wurmser. "Reluctant but Necessary Rape" in the Life of a Tween / Stanley H. Cath -- Cultural, Social, and Gender Implications. Uncounted Stepfamilies: Remarried Fathers and Their Wives / Jamie K. Keshet. Birthlands, Steplands, and Adopted Lands: The Immigrant's Tryst with Psychogeographic Maps and Territories / Purnima Mehta. The Stepfather in Sophocles' Electra / Melvin R. Lansky -- Forensic Issues. Legal Rights to Stepparents: A Concept in Development / Moisy Shopper. Some Forensic, Financial, and Transference Considerations: A Stepdaughter as "Family Brick" / Stanley H. Cath. Forensic and Therapeutic Issues in Stepparent Adoptions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective / Harold J. Bursztajn and Rachel R. Boersma. The Therapeutic Importance of "Recognition Processes" in Attachment, Detachment, and Reattachment Experiences / Stanley H. Cath and Moisy Shopper.

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