Smadar Ashuach is a clinical psychologist, supervisor, training psychoanalyst and group analyst based in Israel.

Avi Berman is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, training psychoanalyst and group analyst. He is the founder of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis.

Forward

Earl Hopper

Preface.

Juliet Mitchell

Introduction.

Smadar Ashuach and Avi Berman

Sibling relations

1.1 Group Encounters at the Boundaries of Developmental Epochs

Richard M. Billow

1.2 Siblings and groups. Groups of siblings?

Maria-Jose Blanco

1.3 Far away from home: A study of sibling relationships in Thomas Ogden's novels

Shoshi Breiner

1.4 A new take on Joseph and his brothers: siblings as a potential rescue from parental destructiveness

Robi Friedman

1.5 Transferences in Groups and Organizations. Definitions and clinical value

Einar Gudmundsson

1.6 Otherness in groups: The nursing couple and Oedipal relations

R.D. Hinshelwood

1.7 "What happens when you cut a worm?" - Group members as Peers

Joanna Skowronska

1.8 Mature Adult Siblinghood

Suzi Shoshani and Pnina Rappoport

1.9 Kinship and Sibling Dynamics in Organizational Consultancy

Gerhard Wilke

Sibling trauma

2.1 Exclusion on the horizontal axis

Smadar Ashuach

2.2 The horizontal axis from differen perspectives: The Social Significance of Siblings

Prophecy Coles

2.3 Processes of Scapegoating and Sibling Rivalry in the Context of the Basic Assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification

Earl Hopper

2.4 Sibling witnessing in analytic group therapy

Ella Stolper

2.5 Healing traumatic scars: New sibling relationships in therapeutic settings

Ivan Urli¿

The law of the mother

3.1 The Law of the Mother and its expression in group relations conferences and organizations

Smadar Ashuach and Simi Talmi

3.2 Discrimination: The dark side of the Law

Avi Berman

3.3 Snitches-a rupture in "siblings" relationships

Martin Mahler and Liat Warhaftig-Aran

3.4 "Law of the Mother" - its impact on love and hate between siblings and in society

Gila Ofer

The Horizontal axis

4.1 The Tree and the Rhizome and the Horizontal Axes - Reflections on Individual and Group Therapy following Deleuze and Guattari

Avi Berman and Limor Avrahami

4.2 Traversing the Axes: The intersection of parental and sibling relations in the film The Return, by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Rina Dudai

4.3 Power relations in psychoanalysis as conditioned by capitalist structures: Felix Guttari's critique and new horizons

Ester Rapoport and Gita Kiper