Siblings in Therapy: Life Span and Clinical Issues
Co-edited by Michael Kahn and Karen Gail Lewis
(W.W.Norton, N.Y., 1988)
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Michael D. Kahn and Karen Gail Lewis
I. SIBLING DYNAMICS: GENERAL ISSUES
Introduction
1. Intense Sibling Relationships: A Self-Psychological View
Michael D. Kahn
2. Enchantment of Siblings: Effects of Birth Order and Trance on Family Myth
Morton S. Perlmutter
3. Basics of Family Structure and Sibling Position
Walter Toman
4. Ethnic Patterns and Sibling Relationships
Eve Primpas Harriman Welts
II. WHEN SIBLINGS ARE CLOSE: THE EARLY YEARS
Introduction
5. Young Siblings in Brief Therapy
Karen Gail Lewis
6. Clinical Interventions With Large Family Systems: Balancing Interests Through Siblings
Dennis E. McGuire and Patrick Tolan
7. Untangling Incestuous Bonds: The Treatment of Sibling Incest
Marsha L. Heiman
8. Psychotherapy with Siblings of Disabled Children
Milton Seligman
9. When Parents Separate or Divorce: The Sibling System
Lee Combrinck-Graham
10. Stepsiblings in Therapy
Elinor Rosenberg
11. Children of Alcoholics: Their Sibling World
Rosalie C. Jesse
III. BALANCING CLOSENESS AND SEPARATENESS
LATE ADOLESCDENCE AND EARLY ADULT YEARS
Introduction
12. Symptoms as Sibling Messages
Karen Gail Lewis
13. The Tilted Family
Clark W. Falconer and Colin A. Ross
14. The Vortex: Siblings in the Eating Disordered Family
Laura Giat Roberto
15. My Brother’s Keeper: Siblings of Chronic Patients as Allies in Family Treatment
Ethan G. Harris
IV. SETTLING OLD SCORES: THE MIDDLE YEARS
Introduction
16. The Stolen Birthright: The Adult Sibling in Individual Therapy
Stephen Pl. Bank
17. Blueprints from the Past: A Character Work Perspective on Siblings and Personality Formation
Sandra Watanabe-Hammond
18. Siblings and the Family Business
Robert Carroll
19. Sibling Issues in Cotherapy and Coauthoring
William J. Doherty
V. FACING THE PROBLEMS OF AGING: THE LATE YEARS
Introduction
20. Relationships Among Adult Siblings Who Care for Their Aged Parents
Mario Tonti
21. Interpersonal Relationships Among Elderly Siblings
Victor G. Cicirelli