New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness
New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined personal relationships.

Based on the research expertise of each of the authors (all identical twins in their own right), and vignettes from twins across the globe, this book describes the inner workings of the twin-world, showing how the twin-world creates experiences that are often more intense and intricately textured than those in the singleton-world. Chapters debunk myths surrounding twinship and analyze the developmental stages of the twin relationship as well as the effect of being a twin on one’s mental health from different perspectives. The authors articulate how attachment, separation anxiety, loneliness, estrangement, and the subjective experience of the twin and non-twin "other" impact behavior, thinking, and feeling.

Through its careful study of the many psychological challenges that twins face throughout their lifetime, this text will help psychologists, scholars, clinicians, and twins themselves attain a deeper understanding of all interpersonal relationships.

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New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness
New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined personal relationships.

Based on the research expertise of each of the authors (all identical twins in their own right), and vignettes from twins across the globe, this book describes the inner workings of the twin-world, showing how the twin-world creates experiences that are often more intense and intricately textured than those in the singleton-world. Chapters debunk myths surrounding twinship and analyze the developmental stages of the twin relationship as well as the effect of being a twin on one’s mental health from different perspectives. The authors articulate how attachment, separation anxiety, loneliness, estrangement, and the subjective experience of the twin and non-twin "other" impact behavior, thinking, and feeling.

Through its careful study of the many psychological challenges that twins face throughout their lifetime, this text will help psychologists, scholars, clinicians, and twins themselves attain a deeper understanding of all interpersonal relationships.

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New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

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Overview

New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined personal relationships.

Based on the research expertise of each of the authors (all identical twins in their own right), and vignettes from twins across the globe, this book describes the inner workings of the twin-world, showing how the twin-world creates experiences that are often more intense and intricately textured than those in the singleton-world. Chapters debunk myths surrounding twinship and analyze the developmental stages of the twin relationship as well as the effect of being a twin on one’s mental health from different perspectives. The authors articulate how attachment, separation anxiety, loneliness, estrangement, and the subjective experience of the twin and non-twin "other" impact behavior, thinking, and feeling.

Through its careful study of the many psychological challenges that twins face throughout their lifetime, this text will help psychologists, scholars, clinicians, and twins themselves attain a deeper understanding of all interpersonal relationships.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367228736
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/24/2020
Pages: 350
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barbara Klein, EdD, is an identical twin who has devoted her career to twin-identity development. She has written four books helping parents and twins alike deal with fighting and loneliness, and speaks nationally and internationally to twins about building more authentic relationships with their others.

Stephen Hart, PhD, is an identical twin. A lifelong student of psychology, he has worked with the Sandhurst Department of Communications and Applied Behavioral Science to support their teaching of the "Understanding Self" and "Understanding Other" modules of the Reading University-accredited Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Strategic Studies.

Jacqueline Martinez, PhD, is an identical twin. She is an associate professor at Arizona State University where she studies and teaches courses on communication, semiotics, and phenomenology. Her published work includes Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis (2000) and Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience (2011).

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

The Authors x

Introduction Barbara Klein Stephen A. Hart Jacqueline M. Martinez 1

1 Myth, Fantasy, and Reality: The Challenges Twins Face Sharing Their Early Lives and Growing Apart Barbara Klein 9

2 The Study of Twin Experience as Twins: A Phenomenological Approach Jacqueline M. Martinez 41

3 Communicative Intricacies of the Twin-World and Twin-Identities Jacqueline M. Martinez 75

4 Parenting: The Critical Determinant of Twin-Attachment and Mental Health in Twins Barbara Klein 101

5 Developmental Changes in Twin Relationships Barbara Klein 120

6 "Alone Without the Mirror" I: Humans, Twins, and Loneliness Stephen A. Hart 144

7 "Alone Without the Mirror" II: Twins, Separation, and Chronic Twin-Loneliness Stephen A. Hart 178

8 "In the Hall of Mirrors": Twins Living in the Non-Twin-World Stephen A. Hart 222

9 Twin Estrangement, Significant Others, and the Relational Matrices of the Twin-World Jacqueline M. Martinez 258

10 Can Twins Be Alone in the Mirror?: Psychotherapy for Twins Barbara Klein 290

Conclusion Barbara Klein Stephen A. Hart Jacqueline M. Martinez 311

References 320

Index 329

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