Stepparenting

Preface: Some Reflections on Shakespeare and the History of Family Life Introduction: "Stepfathers: Varieties and Job Descriptions" - Moisy Shopper "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 Midlfe 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 "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: 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 Necessay Rape' in the Life of a Tween" - Stanley H. Cath Birthlands, Steplands, and Adopted Lands: The Immigrant's Tryst with Psychogeographic Maps and Territories" - Purnima Mehta "The Stepfather in Sophocles' Electra" - Melvin R. Lansky "Legal Rights of 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 Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective" - Harold J. Burstajn and Rachel R. Boersma Epilogue: "The Therapeutic Importance of 'Recognition Processes' in Attachment, Detachment, and Reattachment Experiences" - Stanley H. Cath and Moisy Shopper