Towards a group-analytic sibling theory

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, 2022; Parker, 2020).…”

Book Review: Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice: Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organizational Consultancy (New International Library of Group Analysis)

“…Hinshelwood’s stimulating chapter ‘Otherness in Groups: The Nursing Couple and Oedipal Relations’ explores Britton’s concept of the ‘Third Position’—the position of being an observer—and how this can be applied to siblings. I also applied this theory to siblings in my book (Parker, Towards a Group-Analytic Sibling Theory, 2020) and cited the same passage! It is interesting that we have both recognized its merit.…”