Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic perspectives on step-families and step-parenting

Title
  1. Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic perspectives on step-families and step-parenting / Prophecy Coles.
Published by
  1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Author
  1. Coles, Prophecy

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Description
  1. 121 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Subject
  1. Stepfamilies > Psychological aspects
  2. Stepparents
Contents
  1. 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?.
Call number
  1. JFE 18-7225
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Coles, Prophecy, author.
Title
  1. Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic perspectives on step-families and step-parenting / Prophecy Coles.
Publisher
  1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2017024430
ISBN
  1. 9781138126381 hardback alkaline paper
  2. 1138126381 hardback alkaline paper
  3. 9781138126398 paperback alkaline paper
  4. 113812639X paperback alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. JFE 18-7225
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