The Normal One; Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling
by PhD, Jeanne SaferFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-09-03
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary
In the first book of its kind, renowned psychotherapist Jeanne Safer examines the hidden trauma of growing up with an emotionally troubled or physically disabled sibling, and helps adult "normal" siblings resolve their childhood pain. For too long the therapeutic community has focused on the parent-child relationship as the primary relationship in a child's life. In The Normal One, Dr. Safer shows that sisters and brothers are just as important as parents, and she illuminates for the first time the experience of being "the normal one."
Author Biography
Jeanne Safer, Ph.D., has been practicing psychotherapy for twenty-seven years. A supervisor and faculty member at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the National Institute for Psychotherapies, Dr. Safer is the author of Beyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Children, a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award; and Forgiving and Not Forgiving. Dr. Safer lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Where Have All the Siblings Gone? | p. 1 |
| My Brother, Myself | p. 3 |
| Everybody's an Only Child | p. 29 |
| The Burden of Normality | p. 41 |
| Prospero's Damaged Family | p. 43 |
| America's Damaged Families | p. 55 |
| My Sister Ate My Homework: At Home with Damaged Siblings | p. 69 |
| My Sister Spoke to Me: Dreams of Normal Siblings | p. 83 |
| Invisibility and Perverse Preeminence | p. 93 |
| Dark Victories | p. 107 |
| Passing Caliban On: Normal Siblings as Parents | p. 125 |
| A Life of One's Own | p. 137 |
| My Brother's Keeper | p. 139 |
| The Caliban Syndrome I: Repudiation and Identification | p. 159 |
| The Caliban Syndrome II: Acknowledgment | p. 179 |
| Bibliography | p. 197 |
| Index | p. 201 |
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