Siblings in Development: A Psychoanalytic View

Editor : Vivienne Lewin, Editor : Belinda Sharp

Siblings in Development: A Psychoanalytic View

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Reviews and Endorsements

'Freud's early psychohistory may have influenced his focus on parents as the primary recipients of incestuous desires and murderous impulses. This lively book redresses the relative neglect of siblings in psychoanalysis. With great sensitivity and clinical expertise, the authors unfurl narratives of early passion, catastrophe and intrigue between siblings, offering insight into twin transferences, and the neglected sibship roots of peer transactions and social battlefields
- Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, Psychoanalyst; Leader, Teen-Parents' Project, UCL/Anna Freud Centre, London

'Sibling relationships are fundamentally important: in themselves, as models for later relationships, and as essential elements of our inner world. The contributions to this fascinating volume document some of the implications in relation to psychoanalytic theory; clinical work with adults, children and groups; infant observation before and after birth; and sociology. Readers will find a rich source of stimulating ideas on theory and clinical practice.'
- Maria Rhode, Professor of Child Psychotherapy, Tavistock Clinic/University of East London

Contents
1. When two become four - Toby Etterley
2. Tsunami Boy - Ellie Roberts
3. The influence of conjoined twins on each other - Jeanne Magagna and Gloria Dominguez, with contribution by Alessandra Marsoni
4. Twinship: a unique sibling relationship- Vivienne Lewin
5. Siblings in development, an edited version of the discussion between Juliet Mitchell and Ronald Britton
6. Sibling Incest - Prophecy Coles
7. Developing a sense of identity as an individual - Jeanne Magagna
8. Taking account of siblings - a view from child psychotherapy - Margaret Rustin
9 Twin developments - Alessandra Piontelli

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