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SHADOW BOXING
When a child is disabled, it affects the entire family. Whether blind, autistic, or ADHD, the mentally and physically disabled child calls for constant care, resulting in other children being shoved aside or called upon for extra support. Siblings often know each other longer than they will know their own parents, and able siblings are most often turned to for help with their disabled siblings from a young age into adulthood. What are the emotional effects of these children who were forced to care for their disabled siblings?

Dr. Peggy Boone conducted a study to explore the long-lasting effects and problems within disabled families. When she questioned able siblings, she found guilt, anger, and sadness. These children, now adults, understand that their childhoods were full of a responsibility and shame that are not typical.

Dr. Boone uses Jungian archetypes to explore the different ways siblings deal with their placement within disabled families. These innate types of behavior become a way for able siblings to measure all of their experiences, beliefs, and ideas. Whether the role of Warrior, Victim, Rescuer, or Martyr, these archetypes furnish basic patterns and instincts of behavior that may have enabled the siblings to become normally functioning adults despite the struggle against lingering shadows.

Each archetype is full of personal anecdotes from able siblings in an effort to better understand the emotional impact on these families. Shadow Boxing: Siblings of the Disabled will furnish a model for siblings and parents who must deal with the discrepancy between conventional families and their own realities.

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SHADOW BOXING
When a child is disabled, it affects the entire family. Whether blind, autistic, or ADHD, the mentally and physically disabled child calls for constant care, resulting in other children being shoved aside or called upon for extra support. Siblings often know each other longer than they will know their own parents, and able siblings are most often turned to for help with their disabled siblings from a young age into adulthood. What are the emotional effects of these children who were forced to care for their disabled siblings?

Dr. Peggy Boone conducted a study to explore the long-lasting effects and problems within disabled families. When she questioned able siblings, she found guilt, anger, and sadness. These children, now adults, understand that their childhoods were full of a responsibility and shame that are not typical.

Dr. Boone uses Jungian archetypes to explore the different ways siblings deal with their placement within disabled families. These innate types of behavior become a way for able siblings to measure all of their experiences, beliefs, and ideas. Whether the role of Warrior, Victim, Rescuer, or Martyr, these archetypes furnish basic patterns and instincts of behavior that may have enabled the siblings to become normally functioning adults despite the struggle against lingering shadows.

Each archetype is full of personal anecdotes from able siblings in an effort to better understand the emotional impact on these families. Shadow Boxing: Siblings of the Disabled will furnish a model for siblings and parents who must deal with the discrepancy between conventional families and their own realities.

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SHADOW BOXING

SHADOW BOXING

by PhD. Boone
SHADOW BOXING

SHADOW BOXING

by PhD. Boone

Overview

When a child is disabled, it affects the entire family. Whether blind, autistic, or ADHD, the mentally and physically disabled child calls for constant care, resulting in other children being shoved aside or called upon for extra support. Siblings often know each other longer than they will know their own parents, and able siblings are most often turned to for help with their disabled siblings from a young age into adulthood. What are the emotional effects of these children who were forced to care for their disabled siblings?

Dr. Peggy Boone conducted a study to explore the long-lasting effects and problems within disabled families. When she questioned able siblings, she found guilt, anger, and sadness. These children, now adults, understand that their childhoods were full of a responsibility and shame that are not typical.

Dr. Boone uses Jungian archetypes to explore the different ways siblings deal with their placement within disabled families. These innate types of behavior become a way for able siblings to measure all of their experiences, beliefs, and ideas. Whether the role of Warrior, Victim, Rescuer, or Martyr, these archetypes furnish basic patterns and instincts of behavior that may have enabled the siblings to become normally functioning adults despite the struggle against lingering shadows.

Each archetype is full of personal anecdotes from able siblings in an effort to better understand the emotional impact on these families. Shadow Boxing: Siblings of the Disabled will furnish a model for siblings and parents who must deal with the discrepancy between conventional families and their own realities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621472377
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, L.L.C.
Publication date: 01/08/2013
Pages: 294
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Peggy Y. Boone, Ph.D., is the sister of a Down's sibling and the mother of both a disabled child and an able son. A retired educator and currently a mental health worker in grief and family counseling, she is also the author of two previous books and an international presenter.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Prologue 13

The Power of Archetypes 19

Archetype: Family 23

Birth order 25

Family Drawings of Siblings of Disabled 33

Archetype: Potential 37

Prevalence of Disabled 38

Euthanasia 43

Degree of Disability 48

Archetype: Communication 53

Archetype: Attributes 59

Ethnicity, Cultural, and Minority Factors 60

Archetype: Mother 67

Mother's Favorite 68

Insecure attachment 69

Fear of abandonment 73

The Maligned Mother 79

The Forgotten Father 84

Archetype: Saboteur 93

Anxiety 94

Fear 96

Archetype: Contracts 101

Somatic Issues-Real or Imagined, It Hurts 102

Mental Issues: The Wounds You Can See Are Not Always the Ones That Hurt the Most 104

Safety issues 108

Archetype: Time 111

Trans-generational Parenting 112

Preoccupied Parenting 115

Perverse Parenting 118

Archetype: Warrior 123

Anger 124

Childhood Memories 128

Perception 130

Fairness 133

Identity 135

Trust 138

Temperament 141

Jealousy 142

Competition 147

Archetype: Victim 151

Love/Hate 152

Isolation 159

Scapegoating 162

Gender 166

Archetype: Rescuer 171

Responsibility 172

Prematurity 175

Care 177

Long-term Care 179

Parent Support 181

Perfect Kid Syndrome 185

Perfectionism 187

Achievement 188

Influence on Life Choices 189

Leaving Home 191

Choosing a Career 192

Archetype: Martyr 195

Guilt 196

Parental Guilt 199

Death of a Sibling 205

Twins 207

Survivor Guilt 211

Shame 212

Archetype: Religion 217

Reasons 219

Sadness 223

Dreams 226

Everyone's Loss 231

Nondisabled Loss 232

Disabled loss 233

Parent Loss 234

Everyone's Gain 235

Relationship with Other Siblings 236

Relationship with Others 240

Archetype: Optimism 245

Lessons 246

Archetype: Sage 249

Advice to the Able Sibling 250

Advice to Parents of Able Children 251

Conclusions 254

Archetype: Journey 259

Epilogue 263

Appendix 265

Media Representations 265

Rain Man 266

Dominick & Eugene 267

My Left Foot 268

Riding the Bus with My Sister 269

What's Eating Gilbert Grape 271

Endnotes 273

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