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Only-Child Experience and Adulthood

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  • © 2008

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  1. Bernice Sorensen
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Transcending the Stereotypes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Politics of the Only-Child

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 3-36

    3. The Research Framework

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 37-51

    4. Co-Researchers’ Stories

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 52-82

    5. Only-Child Voices and Life-Stages

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 83-102

  3. A Multiplicity of Voices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Research Data and the World Wide Web

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 105-114

    3. Stories from China and Taiwan

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 115-130

    4. Life-Stories and Life-Stages

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 131-156

  4. Implications for Therapy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. The Only-Child Archetype: A Folktale

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 159-163

    3. The Only-Child Matrix

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 164-195

    4. Gathering the Threads

      • Bernice Sorensen
      Pages 196-204

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 205-217
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About this book

This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults. Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the private and public worlds of the only-child.

About the author

BERNICE SORENSEN  has had a thirty-year career in counselling and psychotherapy, working in education, the NHS and employment programmes. She has a private practice and is an Associate of Cascade Training Associates. Being an only-child herself, she has a special interest in the phenomenon, and has written several articles, run workshops and set up the website www.onlychild.org.uk.

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