A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix

The experience of theft of the firstborn’s rights as echoed in individual and group analysis

“…But my connection with the group conductor-who resembled a competitive, jealous parent-did not allow me, the child, to be just one of the group. I concluded that the group functions as a space that enables re-enactment to occur and facilitates the treatment of problematic sibling relationships and sibling trauma (Ashuach, 2012(Ashuach, , 2022Parker, 2020).…”