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This paper urges that attention be paid to the meaning and importance of early sibling relationships as manifested in clients' and therapists' lives and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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Kivowitz, A. Attending to sibling issues and transferences in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Clin Soc Work J 23, 37–46 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02190590
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