Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic perspectives on step-families and step-parenting / Prophecy Coles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coles, Prophecy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stepfamilies--Psychological aspects.

Stepfamilies.

Stepparents.

Physical Description:

121 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Step-families and Step-parenting looks at the role step-parents can play in the psychic development of children. Step-parenting requires enormous confidence and resilience that stretches into a territory of human emotions and conflict that can make marriage seem easy. Prophecy Coles' concern has been that we are witnessing a new kinship system and our psychological thinking has not kept up with the emotional effect that stepparents are having upon the next generation. The author traces the history of our beliefs about stepparents through the oral tradition of the fairy story into our present, arguably prejudiced beliefs about them. Coles explores whether our feelings about stepparents arise from the unconscious tradition that placed stepparents in hostile opposition to the natural forces of parenting. The absence of detailed clinical work on the subject has meant that the author has drawn on interviews, biography and three long term research projects to think about this new family constellation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The stepmother in our fairy stories

The fairy story stepfather: where is he?

The strangely shaped footprint of women

The psychic moorings of a stepchild

No longer the fairy tale stepmother

Psychoanalytic theory and stepparents

Is step-parenting all in the mind?

The new reality?

Are we living in a "me" society?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138126381

1138126381

9781138126398

113812639X

OCLC:

1014001832