ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the significance of the therapist’s own experience with their siblings on the kind of therapeutic relation they tend to create. It aims to compare the family situation and, in particular, the place among siblings of two psychoanalytic “fathers”: Sigmund Freud and S. H. Foulkes, the creator of group analytic therapy, also known as group analysis. P. Coles, writing about sibling transference, tries to capture the characteristics of the transference-countertranseference experience that can inform the therapist of its occurrence. In a therapeutic group, one can not only encounter one’s “own siblings” on a transference level, but also, one can experience oneself fully in real contact with others and share experience with equals as with siblings and peers. E. Balint writes that the desire for fair share is a stage on the road to the feeling of mutual concern, which is a developmental task of peer relationships.
