Family Ties
Friday, July 21, 2006
Susan McHale, professor of Human Development at Penn State University
and
Jeanne Safer, Ph.D psychotherapist, supervisor and faculty member at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and author, Forgiving and Not Forgiving: Why Sometimes It's Better Not to Forgive (Quill 2000) and The Normal One : Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling (Delta 2003)
- on sibling relationships
ยป Jeanne Safer's website
and
Jeanne Safer, Ph.D psychotherapist, supervisor and faculty member at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and author, Forgiving and Not Forgiving: Why Sometimes It's Better Not to Forgive (Quill 2000) and The Normal One : Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling (Delta 2003)
- on sibling relationships
ยป Jeanne Safer's website
Comments [1]
Interesting discussion.
Talks a lot about the influence of siblings on child and adult life, and the fact that the professional literature (and thereby the public's consciousness) has overlooked this topic egregiously throughout the modern era.
Thought the one speaker was too focused on the negative and the other seeemed to whitewash things, but that could be explained by the fact that the former studies disturbed families/siblings while the latter looks at normal/healthy ones.
Wish it could have gone on longer, and maybe had another panelist. Especially would have been interesting if they had discussed the implications of sibling issues for psychotherapy more fully.
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