Family Therapy & Sibling Position

by Walter Toman

Book Overview

Relationships with our brothers and sisters affect our entire lives. This book shows how sibling position influences love and family relationships, and how therapists' own sibling position affects the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876689667
• ISBN13: 9780876689660
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A pioneering study

This pioneering study analyzes the effect of birth order and birth spacing on such factors as friendship, marriage and career success. First- children are generally taken to be leaders and most responsible. The second child is ordinarily the more flexible and compromising. And in a three child- family the youngest is often the most creative and rebellious. My brief remarks do not of course do justice to the complexity of Toman's study. Clearly birth- order is not the single factor, and often not the decisive one in shaping a personality. But Toman gives evidence that it is an important factor which taken into consideration with many others helps shape the person.