Terri Apter
Terri Apter
Family Psychology | Self-development
Terri Apter is a psychologist, writer and Fellow Emerita of Newnham College Cambridge. She is the author of many critically acclaimed books on family dynamics, including Altered Loves: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and The Confident Child (winner of the Delta Kappa Gamma International Educator’s Prize). Her reviews and articles have appeared in the Guardian, the TLS, the Financial Times, the New York Times Book Review, and the Psychologist, and she is a regular blogger for Psychology Today. Raised in Chicago, she moved to the UK to study at Edinburgh University and Cambridge University, where she has worked ever since.
Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations
Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations
‘Grandparenting is a long-awaited, well-informed, personal and well-researched insight into what it means to be a grandparent. Terri Apter is brilliant, warm, human, and wise… A wonderful book’
Julia Samuel, author of Every Family Has a Story
‘Wise, deep, illuminating and so compassionate – for mothers, daughters, children, everyone who makes a family. I’ve recommended it to many friends, both mums of young children, like myself, who are trying to understand their shifting relationships, and friends who are now at the grandmothering stage. I know it’s a book I’ll return to as time passes’
Liz Berry, author of The Republic of Motherhood
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‘In tones of good humour and rare sanity, Grandparenting
Josh Cohen, author of All the Rage
‘A magnificent book, written by one of the most impressive experts on family psychology, Dr Terri Apter has created a highly readable and deeply honest investigation of the joys, the burdens, and the complexities of becoming a grandmother or grandfather. A work of deep emotional sensitivity, Apter has helped us to understand the true complexities of interactions among three intimate generations: babies, parents, and grandparents’
Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London
‘A thoughtful, innovative exploration of the role of grandparents, combining interviews and research against the backdrop of contemporary family life’
Leah Hazard, author of Womb
