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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Ghosts: Two Sets of Siblings Chapter Two: Recognizing Sibling Ghosts in Your Clients' Treatment Chapter Three: Ghosts' Unconscious Sibling Messages Chapter Four: Ghosts Transferences in All Relationships, and into the Next Generation Chapter Five: Ghosts Complicate Dealing with Aging Parents Chapter Six: Treatment for Those Requesting Sibling Therapy Chapter Seven: Therapists' Feelings Chapter Eight: Intensive Weekends Retreats Chapter Nine: Clinical Tool Box for Exorcising Ghosts Appendix A: Case Studies 1. The Price of the Being the Favorite Child 2. Unhealthy Loyalty in Individual Therapy 3. Unhealthy Loyalty and Shifting Roles 4. Idealized Frozen Images and Misdirected PTSD 5. Sibling Transference in Friendship 6. Secrets Underlying Sibling Conflict 7. Sibling Messages about Getting Even 8. Healing from Sibling Sexual Abuse 9. QTIP: When to Pull Back 10. Re-Creating Parents Battles 11. Speaking to Each Person Individually While Together 12. Therapist's Use of Voice to Stop Bickering 13. Transgenerational Sibling Issues 14. Weekend Retreat for Sabrina and Siblings (from Ch. 2) Appendix B: Genograms Appendix C: Hourglass Pattern of Sibling Relationships
