Siblings

Beata Maciejewska-Sobczak is a Training Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Supervisor of the Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, which is a member of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). She is a Polish Psychoanalytic Association Candidate and works in Warsaw in private practice. Katarzyna Skrzypek is a psychologist and a graduate of Warsaw University. She is currently a Training Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Supervisor of the Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and a Delegate of the Polish Society to the Adult Psychotherapy Section of the EFPP. She has worked for several years with adult children of alcoholics and recovering alcoholics. She works in private practise in Warsaw, Poland. Zuzanna Stadnicka Dmitriew is a psychologist and psychoanalytical psychotherapist working in private practice near Warsaw. She is a member of the Polish Society for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, and a Polish Psychoanalytical Association Candidate.

• Series Editor’s Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Sibling: Intruder or Newcomer -- Sibling rivalry: psychoanalytic aspects and institutional implications -- Siblings in psychotherapy: a report from a preliminary psychoanalytic research project -- Therapeutic group—almost like a family: a few comments on siblings -- The intransience of the sibling bond: a relational and family systems view -- Moses, Aaron, Miriam: integrative sibling relation -- Growing up with a Sick or Disabled Sibling -- The disabled child’s siblings and parents: dealing with the impact of the birth of a disabled sibling: a case study -- The disabled child’s siblings and parents: the ghost sibling -- The disabled child’s siblings and parents: their predicaments -- A family under a microscope: about the influence of family ties through DNA -- Loss of a Sibling -- The transgenerational pattern of trauma transmission -- A sister is being murdered -- Casting a long shadow: implications of sibling loss -- Transference and Countertransference Related to Siblinghood -- The actual twin and the imaginary subject -- The lost twin: on various types of reaction to having a twin sibling -- Experiences with siblings in early childhood: specific forms of transference and countertransference in therapeutic processes -- Lateral vs. Vertical: The Intertwining of the Two Perspectives -- Envy, jealousy, love, and generosity in sibling relations: the impact of sibling relations on future family relations -- The fraternal complex in the Under Five Service -- Ghosts in sibling rivalry -- “We are unbeatable.” The relation between siblings seen as an opportunity or as a retreat: talking about the Oedipus complex—is that old-fashioned? -- The psychotherapists’ relation with their own siblings as a factor shaping the therapeutic relation

'This collection of papers superbly illustrates the complexity of sibling relationships as they unravel in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and also demonstrates how therapeutic the work can be. For psychoanalysis the key question is whether siblings demand an additional paradigm to the child-parent vertical axis with which so far they have been amalgamated? Without this, siblings are potentially both "nowhere" as autonomous entities within psychoanalytic theory and "everywhere" in the clinical work. These papers contribute magnificently to an understanding of the "everywhere" from which the "nowhere" may, or may not, become "somewhere".' - Juliet Mitchell, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at Cambridge University, Director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London and author of Siblings: Sex and Violence'In my daily work as a psychoanalyst I repeatedly observe that being the sole child can create as many problems for the patient as having siblings. Besides the oedipal and the mother-child relationships, there is definitely a place in psychoanalytic theory for siblings' relationships. The role of siblinghood is not restricted to a negative one (such as the story of Cain and Abel), it may also be positive in facilitating the consolidation of the narcissism and the building up of the I, of the subject. This book is a challenging and welcome attempt at filling a gap, covering a wide scope of interesting theoretical and clinical issues.'- Professor Francois Ladame, psychoanalyst (Societe Suisse de Psychanalyse), psychiatrist, and author of Les Eternels Adolescents: Comment Devenir AdulteContributors: Ewa Back, Rachel Blass, Francesco Bisagni, Deborah Blessing, Daniela Cantone, Prophecy Coles, Rossella Coveri, Francoise Daune, Evalotta Enekvist, Anna Faber, Carmela Guerriera, Michael D. Kahn, Lech Kalita, Alison Knight-Evans, Beata Maciejewska-Sobczak, Jeanne Magagna, Sarah Mandow, Miriam Monticelli, Maria Papagounou, Joanna Skowronska, Katarzyna Skrzypek, Zuzanna Stadnicka-Dmitriew, Nancy Taloumi, Agnieszka Topolewska, Sabine Trenk-Hinterberger, Franz Wellendorf, Marie-Ange Widdershoven, Chava Yanai-Malach