Contents -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Part I: THEORY AND RESEARCH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Persons Comprising a Family -- Two Brothers -- Brother and Sister -- Sister and Brother -- Two Sisters -- A Person with Several Siblings of the Same Type -- Multiple Sibling Positions -- The Size of a Sibling Configuration -- Only Children -- Twins -- Age Differences -- 3. Changes in Family Constellations -- Loss of Family Members -- Step- and Half Siblings -- Adopted Children -- 4. Other Influencing Factors -- 5. Animal Families and Special Forms of Human Families -- 6. Lovers and Spouses -- The Complementary Nature of Certain Sibling Roles -- Noncomplementary Relationships -- Only Children Among the Partners -- The Complementary Versus the Noncomplementary Relationship of Sibling Roles -- Statistical Tests of Complementarity of Sibling Roles of Parents -- 7. Friendships -- 8. Parent-Child Relationships -- 9. Relatives -- 10. The Data -- Part II: APPLICATION AND PRACTICE -- 11. The Basic Types of Sibling Positions -- The Oldest Brother of Brothers -- The Youngest Brother of Brothers -- The Oldest Brother of Sisters -- The Youngest Brother of Sisters -- The Male Only Child -- The Oldest Sister of Sisters -- The Youngest Sister of Sisters -- The Oldest Sister of Brothers -- The Youngest Sister of Brothers -- The Female Only Child -- Multiple and Middle Sibling Positions: Interpretation Guidelines -- Rearrangement of Sibling Positions -- 12. Parents and Types of Parents -- Parents Without Rank and Sex Conflicts -- Parents With a Partial Sex Conflict -- Parents With Rank or Sex Conflicts -- Parents With Rank and Partial Sex Conflicts -- Parents With Rank and Sex Conflicts -- Only Children as Spouses and Parents -- Parents With Multiple and Middle Sibling Positions -- 13. Clinical Cases -- The Symbolic Representation of Family Constellations.

A Case of a Young Man Married at an Early Age -- A Case of Parents in Family Therapy -- A Case of a Gang of Youths in Group Therapy -- 14. Quantitative Aspects, Related Theories and Other Investigations -- 15. Methodological Considerations in Social/Psychological and Clinical Contexts -- More Research on the Complementarity of Sibling Roles -- Looking at an Individual Case -- 16. Family Data in Clinical Psychological Practice -- Data Collections of Family Constellations -- Guide for Securing Data on Family Constellations -- Social Environment Questionnaire -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- V -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T.