Family Constellation: Its Effects on Personality and Social Behavior

Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Fourth Edition......Page 12
Part I: THEORY AND RESEARCH......Page 16
1. Introduction......Page 18
2. Persons Comprising a Family......Page 22
Two Brothers......Page 24
Brother and Sister......Page 26
Sister and Brother......Page 28
Two Sisters......Page 30
A Person with Several Siblings of the Same Type......Page 32
Multiple Sibling Positions......Page 34
The Size of a Sibling Configuration......Page 37
Only Children......Page 40
Twins......Page 42
Age Differences......Page 45
3. Changes in Family Constellations......Page 52
Loss of Family Members......Page 53
Step- and Half Siblings......Page 65
Adopted Children......Page 70
4. Other Influencing Factors......Page 74
5. Animal Families and Special Forms of Human Families......Page 84
6. Lovers and Spouses......Page 90
The Complementary Nature of Certain Sibling Roles......Page 93
Noncomplementary Relationships......Page 97
Only Children Among the Partners......Page 100
The Complementary Versus the Noncomplementary Relationship of Sibling Roles......Page 102
Statistical Tests of Complementarity of Sibling Roles of Parents......Page 108
7. Friendships......Page 120
8. Parent–Child Relationships......Page 130
9. Relatives......Page 142
10. The Data......Page 150
Part II: APPLICATION AND PRACTICE......Page 154
11. The Basic Types of Sibling Positions......Page 156
The Oldest Brother of Brothers......Page 165
The Youngest Brother of Brothers......Page 169
The Oldest Brother of Sisters......Page 172
The Youngest Brother of Sisters......Page 176
The Male Only Child......Page 179
The Oldest Sister of Sisters......Page 182
The Youngest Sister of Sisters......Page 186
The Oldest Sister of Brothers......Page 189
The Youngest Sister of Brothers......Page 192
The Female Only Child......Page 196
Multiple and Middle Sibling Positions: Interpretation Guidelines......Page 200
Rearrangement of Sibling Positions......Page 206
12. Parents and Types of Parents......Page 210
Parents Without Rank and Sex Conflicts......Page 215
Parents With a Partial Sex Conflict......Page 217
Parents With Rank or Sex Conflicts......Page 224
Parents With Rank and Partial Sex Conflicts......Page 230
Parents With Rank and Sex Conflicts......Page 237
Only Children as Spouses and Parents......Page 240
Parents With Multiple and Middle Sibling Positions......Page 244
The Symbolic Representation of Family Constellations......Page 248
A Case of a Young Man Married at an Early Age......Page 254
A Case of Parents in Family Therapy......Page 260
A Case of a Gang of Youths in Group Therapy......Page 269
14. Quantitative Aspects, Related Theories and Other Investigations......Page 276
15. Methodological Considerations in Social/Psychological and Clinical Contexts......Page 282
More Research on the Complementarity of Sibling Roles......Page 284
Looking at an Individual Case......Page 288
16. Family Data in Clinical Psychological Practice......Page 290
Data Collections of Family Constellations......Page 292
Guide for Securing Data on Family Constellations......Page 294
Social Environment Questionnaire......Page 296
Bibliography......Page 300
K......Page 318
Z......Page 319
D......Page 320
N......Page 321
T......Page 322