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
"Henry VIII" Syndrome: The Mystical Biological Bond Versus a Stepfather's "Watching Her Spoil Her Own" / Stanley H. Cath
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
Challenge of Maintaining the Fathering Role After Divorce: Overcoming Shame / Eugenio M. Rothe
Stepfather in a Reconstituted Family / H. Gunther Perdigao
Countertransferences: Stepfathers in Midlife and Beyond / Stanley H. Cath
Vantage Points of Two Stepsisters in Midlife / Stanley H. Cath
Death of a Stepfather: A Funeral That Cuts All Ties / Stanley H. Cath
Stepfathers: Clinical Explorations / Robert M. Galatzer-Levy
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
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 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
Stepfather in Sophocles' Electra / Melvin R. Lansky
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
Therapeutic Importance of "Recognition Processes" in Attachment, Detachment, and Reattachment Experiences / Stanley H. Cath and Moisy Shopper.
