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Paul Marcus and coauthor and journalist Joseph Helmreich present ten child custody cases in a highly readable, nontechnical manner followed by analysis and recommendations to the court. The psychoanalytically informed reflections are the key to each chapter and collectively serve as a primer on psychoanalytically oriented forensic psychology applied to child custody litigation. This book will be of value to mental health professionals, and, with its accessible style, to attorneys, judges, and parents as well.
Paul Marcus (1999, 2003, 2008) is well known in analytic circles for his scholarly forays into religion and psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the implications for psychoanalysis of the life and work of Emmanuel Levinas. There are those who thus may be surprised to learn that Marcus spends a good portion of his professional life away from the rarefied atmosphere of psychoanalytic and philosophical reflection, inside one of the most undesirable, soul-deadening environments in contemporary society: the divorce court.
Here, for many years, Marcus in his role as forensic psychologist has witnessed the impact of marital breakdown on each of the players in these tragic dramas. What makes Warring Parents such a significant contribution is that Marcus is one of the few psychoanalysts working in this specialty. This allows him to bring an analytic perspective to the process of child custody disputes and to frame his observations and