A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives

ISBN-13: 9780367375843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 142 str.

Val Parker

Opis

The book offers a fresh group analytic approach to siblings, recognising how these relationships are embedded in the framework of the family and how sibling experiences shape our lives, influencing relationships with partners, friends, and colleagues, and affecting how we take our place in groups and in society.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  Preface;  Introduction: The sibling matrix; Part One: Sibling life;  1. Becoming a sibling;  2. Growing up together;  3. When siblings become a group: the challenge of finding one’s place;  4. The adult sibling matrix and its roots in infancy;  5. Sibling loss;  Part Two: Siblings in clinical work;  6. Siblings in the consulting room;  7. Working with the sibling matrix in groups;  8. Towards a group-analytic sibling theory: overcoming the sibling blind-spot; Part Three: Siblings in the wider world;  9. The sibling matrix in organisations;  Epilogue: the sibling matrix in our world today;  References

O autorze

Val Parker is a psychotherapist and group analyst working in private practice in West Oxfordshire. She is a tutor on the Psychodynamics Programme at the University of Oxford and a member of the staff team on the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis in Tirana, Albania. More information about Val can be found at www.valparkerpsychotherapy.com.