Family Therapy and Sibling Position (The master work series) [Paperback]

Walter Toman (Author)

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Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (September 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568210035
• ISBN-13: 978-1568210032
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,449,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A pioneering study, January 1, 2007

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Therapy and Sibling Position (The master work series) (Paperback)

This pioneering study analyzes the effect of birth order and birth spacing on such factors as friendship, marriage and career success. First- children are generally taken to be leaders and most responsible. The second child is ordinarily the more flexible and compromising. And in a three child- family the youngest is often the most creative and rebellious.
My brief remarks do not of course do justice to the complexity of Toman's study.
Clearly birth- order is not the single factor, and often not the decisive one in shaping a personality. But Toman gives evidence that it is an important factor which taken into consideration with many others helps shape the person.