Parenting

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
1.Parenting Across the Lifespan: Some Personal and Conceptual Musings / Steven Tuber, PhD, ABPP
2.Not Your Mother's Identity: Good-Enough Parenting in the Age of Maximization / Lisa Samstag, PhD and Nick Samstag, PhD
3.On Being Essential: Parenting, Immigration, and Acculturation / Diana Punales Morejon, PhD
4.We Are Always Essential / Ken Barish, PhD
Part II: Parenting and Its Impact on Clinical Work
5.The Therapist’s Experience as Parent: The Complex Interaction Between Parent Process and Clinical Work / Leslie Gibson, PhD
6.Parental Humility / Kevin Meehan, PhD and Elizabeth Zick, PhD
7.Rage, Forgiveness, and Acceptance: Parenting Through Difficult Moments / Paul Donahue, PhD
8.“I Can’t Stand Her”: The Role Of Hatred in Development / Marsha Levy Warren, PhD
Part III: The Impact of Clinical Work on Parenting
9.Transformative Aspects of Our Own Analyses and Their Resonance in Our Parenting and Work with Patients / Lauren Levine, PhD
10.Why Did You Choose Me?: Some Thoughts on the Wish to Have a Child and the Child’s Wished-For Parent / Banu Seckin-Ertal, PhD
11.Self-Disclosure, Reverie, and Countertransference as Essential Aspects of Psychotherapy / Monique S. Bowen, PhD
12.Becoming a Grandparent: Memories, Identifications, and Reenactments / Jerry Meyer, MD
13.Gardening in the Softball League: How Teachers Parent / Benjamin Harris, PhD