TY - BOOK AU - Cath,Stanley H. AU - Shopper,Moisy TI - Stepparenting: creating and recreating families in America today SN - 0881631760 AV - HQ759.92 .S736 2001 U1 - 306.874 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Hillsdale, N.J. PB - Analytic Press KW - Stepparents KW - Psychology KW - Case studies KW - Stepchildren KW - Stepfamilies KW - Psychological aspects KW - Family psychotherapy N1 - 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 ER -