Parenting

Parenting:Contemporary Clinical Perspectives offers fresh insights into treating parents and their children that highlight the evolving role of parents throughout the lifespan and amidst contemporary social pressure and change. By drawing from their own personal experiences as well as those from clinical practice, distinguished clinicians and analysts examine each phase of parenting through a variety of lenses to tackle our biggest parenting questions. While we must be highly present for our children to help them develop a sense of self-worth, we must simultaneously step back if we want them to develop a sense of autonomy and individuality. As our role as parent changes, how can we maintain a sense of grace, humor, and perspective? How can our work in practice inform and enrich our parenting, and vice versa? Thoughtful and engaging, this volume is a valuable resource for family therapists and clinicians, especially those who are parents themselves.

Steven Tuber, PhD, ABPP, is professor of psychology and Director of Clinical Training in the doctoral program in clinical psychology of the City College of New York, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including two on child therapy and one on projective testing.

Part I: Theorizing on the Process of Parenting
Parenting Across the Lifespan: Some Personal and Conceptual Musings / Steven Tuber, PhD, ABPPNot Your Mother's Identity: Good-Enough Parenting in the Age of Maximization / Lisa Samstag, PhD and Nick Samstag, PhDOn Being Essential: Parenting, Immigration, and Acculturation / Diana Punales Morejon, PhDWe Are Always Essential / Ken Barish, PhDPart II: Parenting and Its Impact on Clinical Work
The Therapist's Experience as Parent: The Complex Interaction Between Parent Process and Clinical Work / Leslie Gibson, PhDParental Humility / Kevin Meehan, PhD and Elizabeth Zick, PhDRage, Forgiveness, and Acceptance: Parenting Through Difficult Moments / Paul Donahue, PhD"I Can't Stand Her": The Role Of Hatred in Development / Marsha Levy Warren, PhDPart III: The Impact of Clinical Work on Parenting
Transformative Aspects of Our Own Analyses and Their Resonance in Our Parenting and Work with Patients / Lauren Levine, PhDWhy Did You Choose Me?: Some Thoughts on the Wish to Have a Child and the Child's Wished-For Parent / Banu Seckin-Ertal, PhDSelf-Disclosure, Reverie, and Countertransference as Essential Aspects of Psychotherapy / Monique S. Bowen, PhDBecoming a Grandparent: Memories, Identifications, and Reenactments / Jerry Meyer, MDGardening in the Softball League: How Teachers Parent / Benjamin Harris, PhD