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978-0-7657-0732-1 • Hardback • December 2010 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
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Joyce Edward, MSSA, has practiced psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for more than twenty-five years. She is the co-author of Separation-Individuation: Theory and Application and the co-editor of Fostering Healing and Growth: A Psychoanalytic Social Work Approach and The Social Work Psychoanalyst's Casebook: Clinical Voices in Honor of Jean Sanville.
1 Acknowledgments
2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Siblings as Developmental Partners
Chapter 4 2. The Impact of Culture on Sibling Relationships
Chapter 5 3. Siblings in the Families of Today
Chapter 6 4. Foster Care, Adoption, and the New Reproductive Technologies
Chapter 7 5. Sibling Discord
Chapter 8 6. Sibling Sexuality
Chapter 9 7. Siblings with Special Needs
Chapter 10 8. The Death of a Sibling
11 Afterword
12 Bibliography
13 Index
14 About the Author
With strong scholarship, an astute, well-exercised clinical eye, and an even hand, Joyce Edward opens more richly and widely than I have seen to date the multiple functions, both negative and positive, siblings serve in our lives. She rightly observes that in our clinical and theoretical universe, the topic has too long been marginalized by constructs we have perhaps centered too exclusively, failing to take stock of how siblings enrich or burden us and our patients as they help mold who we and they become. Edward, with much clarity, makes a strong case and contribution to what, in our clinical work, we all need to better take into account. A decidedly worth to have book.
— Henri Parens, MD, Thomas Jefferson University, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
There is a special warmth about this book perhaps because of the author's style and clarity, perhaps because of the subject matter which is so welcome because of long neglect, perhaps it is because most of us will bring personal recollections to the reading of the volume. In any case this is a most welcome and important book for all who work with people. Relationships between siblings are studied from many perspectives both normal and pathological. The lingering influence of death of a sibling, illness or developmental problems is discussed and case studies are presented to demonstrate treatment implications. This is an important book that belongs in the library of all practitioners and in the reference materials in schools of social work. It is even interesting enough to be read by anyone who has a sibling, as well as those who wish they did.
— Florence Lieberman, DSW, PhD, Hunter College School of Social Work and National Academies of Practice
The sibling relationship deserves a more prominent place in psychoanalytic treatment. Joyce Edward's book is an invaluable contribution, illuminating the complexity of the sibling attachment and its significance as a force for individual development. Encyclopaedic in its scope, this book is broad as well as deep. The reader can read it as if it were a smorgasbord, selecting chapters on cultural considerations, changing family structure, foster care, adoption, new reproductive technologies, sibling rivalry, sibling sexuality, siblings with special needs. All have numerous clinical vignettes. I would urge all clinicians who care about their work to have this book in their professional library.
— Sharon K. Farber, PhD, New York University School of Social Work
A comprehensive review of the literature on siblings, such as Edward has laboriously amassed, provides the perfect foundation for engaging in the kind of integrative thinking about siblings that has been largely missing from our literature, and thereby contributes a theory of sibling relationships that is broad, psychological and clinically useful.... This is a worthwhile contribution. Moreover, the many intriguing examples across the volume, the clinical focus and the select strong chapters make this book worth reading for those who want a sample of the range of clinically relevant ideas on siblings. For those who want more than a sample, this book provides a good place from which to launch an in-depth investigation of the wide-ranging literature on the sibling relationship.
— The International Journal of Psychoanalysis