Not All Twins Are Alike
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Not All Twins Are Alike

Psychological Profiles of Twinship

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Not All Twins Are Alike

Psychological Profiles of Twinship

About this book

Even twins are unique. Most people idealize twins, fantasizing a close, perpetually loving relationship. Yet Klein, herself an identical twin, demonstrates that twins have complicated and intense relationships that range from over-identification or excessive closeness to profound estrangement and conflict. Most twins who are raised as individuals deal with the significant emotional pain of separation in adolescence or young adulthood, yet as mature adults can come to love and respect each other as individuals. As Klein makes clear, the parenting that twins receive as infants and young children affects the relationships that they have with one another and with the world they choose to function in. Because parenting is a critical determinant of psychological well-being, it should be treated as a serious but manageable challenge. This book is a must-read for twins, their parents, and scholars, students, and other researchers and professionals dealing with mental health and child development.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. The Ultimate Closeness: Growing Up with Your Mirror Image
  6. 2. Separation: A Crucial Formative Experience
  7. 3. The Identity Dilemma
  8. 4. Too Close for Comfort? Issues of Adult Twins
  9. 5. The Twinning Bond
  10. 6. Twins and Psychotherapy
  11. 7. Genetic Endowment and the Environment
  12. 8. The Legacy of Twinship
  13. 9. Parenting Twins
  14. Appendix I: Demographic Breakdown
  15. Appendix II: Pairs of Twins
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index