The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What Book

This “substantial contribution to the literature on sibling relationships” (Library Journal) explores the intricacy, friction, and love in bonds between sisters. Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions—devotion and disregard, affection and loathing, admiration and envy—leading to anguish and confusion on the playground, in the home, and in the boardroom. Negotiating her layered feelings toward a sister shapes a woman’s psychology as forcefully as do her relationships with her parents. Drawing on compelling interviews and new research, Terri Apter considers the many aspects of the sister relationship from birth through adulthood. The need to fight to differentiate oneself from a sister, as well the protectiveness one feels for that same person, is explained by reference to extensive psychological and biological evidence.

Drawing on compelling interviews and new research this book considers the many aspects of the sister relationship. It explains with reference to psychological and biological evidence the need to fight to differentiate oneself from a sister as well as the protectiveness one feels for that person.