Stepparenting : creating and recreating families in America today /
edited by Stanley H. Cath, Moisy Shopper.
- xiii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Some Reflections on Shakespeare and the History of Family Life -- Introduction: Stepfathers: Varieties and Job Descriptions / Developmental Considerations. Some Steppaternal Possibilities / Some Important Contributions of the Stepfather to the Psychological Development of the Boy / Between Marriages: A Period of Dread / Affect Tolerance: A Crucial Requirement for Substitute Parenting / The "Henry VIII" Syndrome: The Mystical Biological Bond Versus a Stepfather's "Watching Her Spoil Her Own" / The Contemporary Stepfather's Search for Legitimacy / Fear of Maternal Aspects of a Stepmother: A Homage to My Stepmother, a Woman Who Transcended Living with an Adolescent Stepdaughter / The Challenge of Maintaining the Fathering Role After Divorce: Overcoming Shame / The Stepfather in a Reconstituted Family / Countertransferences: Stepfathers in Midlife and Beyond / The Vantage Points of Two Stepsisters in Midlife / The Death of a Stepfather: A Funeral That Cuts All Ties / Clinical Dimensions. Stepfathers: Clinical Explorations / The Ready Acceptance of a Stepfather: "I Learned to Love Him Very Slowly" / Stepdaughters and Stepfathers: Living Together in a Haunted House / A Parade of Pseudostepfathers: Altruism and Gratification in a Surrogate Stepfather / On Childless Stepparents / Naivete: Love and Hate Factors in the Outcome of Stepfatherhood / Small Step, Giant Step: A Stepfather / Incest. Incest: What Is It, and How Did It Come to Be? / Oedipal Reenactments with Stepmother and Stepfather: Incest and Splitting of the Superego / "Reluctant but Necessary Rape" in the Life of a Tween / Cultural, Social, and Gender Implications. Uncounted Stepfamilies: Remarried Fathers and Their Wives / Birthlands, Steplands, and Adopted Lands: The Immigrant's Tryst with Psychogeographic Maps and Territories / The Stepfather in Sophocles' Electra / Forensic Issues. Legal Rights to Stepparents: A Concept in Development / Some Forensic, Financial, and Transference Considerations: A Stepdaughter as "Family Brick" / Forensic and Therapeutic Issues in Stepparent Adoptions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective / The Therapeutic Importance of "Recognition Processes" in Attachment, Detachment, and Reattachment Experiences / Moisy Shopper -- Lora Heims Tessman. Eugenio M. Rothe. Stanley H. Cath. Steven L. Nickman. Stanley H. Cath. Ira Brenner. Brenda Clorfene Solomon. Eugenio M. Rothe. H. Gunther Perdigao. Stanley H. Cath. Stanley H. Cath. Stanley H. Cath -- Robert M. Galatzer-Levy. Stanley H. Cath. Martin A. Silverman. Stanley H. Cath. Jerome S. Blackman. Henry J. Friedman and Jamie L. Feldman. Lora Heims Tessman -- Moisy Shopper. Leon Wurmser. Stanley H. Cath -- Jamie K. Keshet. Purnima Mehta. Melvin R. Lansky -- Moisy Shopper. Stanley H. Cath. Harold J. Bursztajn and Rachel R. Boersma. Stanley H. Cath and Moisy Shopper.