Estranged Twins

Theory and research based on the experiences of adult twins
Twins in Conflict

New Understandings of Twin Relationships:

From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

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December 24, 2020 by Routledge. 350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations. Cover image Johanna Keogh © Reproduced with kind permission of the Artist

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’ is a marvelous book. It provides a rich portrayal of the intricate lives of twins and the unique challenges and pitfalls faced by their parents. As an academic, I found the discussion thought-provoking and fascinating. As a singleton parent of gifted twins, I found it also moving, helpful, consoling and inspiring.”
Paul Forster, Ph.D.Professor of Philosophy, University of Ottawa
‘New Understandings of Twin Relationships’ is a marvelous book. It provides a rich portrayal of the intricate lives of twins and the unique challenges and pitfalls faced by their parents. As an academic, I found the discussion thought-provoking and fascinating. As a singleton parent of gifted twins, I found it also moving, helpful, consoling and inspiring.”
Paul Forster, Ph.D.Professor of Philosophy, University of Ottawa
An excellent book to help me figure out more about why I feel certain ways. I’ve wondered sometimes why finding friends was so important to me. But then... there was always something missing in the bond. Dr. Klein’s work has helped me to understand this feeling and others that come from being a twin, and helped me to realize I’m normal as a twin who is living apart from her twin.
Jordan Drayervoice actress, identical twin
The combining of ...specialists in the field and gifted themselves as twins has produced a marvelous work. In reading, I found the fact the twin must respond to a wider world as well as to the twin driven by conflicts including the differential treatments by parents and others. These life stories are compelling and in one sense inspirational ...The text has opened my eyes to an essential area of human and social development.
John McNeilProfessor Emeritus , UCLA Ed & IS
Once again, Dr. Barbara Klein, with her collaborators, has managed to bring together a wealth of information which gives us a better understanding on multiple levels as to the dynamics of twin personalities and twins’ struggle for identity and independence... The more research done in this area, the more we as twins will be able to understand our makeup and transform these seemingly limiting factors into advantages.
Mikela Fenech PaceHR Consultant and Executive Coach
(This) is the latest in a collection of remarkable works by Klein that twins, parents of twins, and friends and family of twins will find highly illuminating, practicable, and profoundly moving. Her work has helped countless individuals realize – often for the first time in their lives – that they are not alone in their struggle to make sense of what it means to be a twin as they endeavor to find a meaningful and healthy place in the world.
Joshua PritchardWriter, musician, identical twin
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Authors

Barbara Klein Psychologist

Barbara Klein, Ed.D., is an identical twin and author who has devoted her 35 year career to twin identity development and educational consulting. Barbara has written ten books in the field of developmental psychology and education, including her latest, Twin Dilemmas – Changing Relationships Throughout the Life Span (May 2017).

Stephen A Hart

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.

jaqueline martinez

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).

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Table of Contents

December 24, 2020 by Routledge. 350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Myth, Fantasy, and Realty: The Challenges Twins Face Sharing Their Early Lives and Growing Apart by Barbara Klein

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

Chapter 3: Communicative Intricacies of the Twin-World and Twin-Identities by Jacqueline M. Martinez

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

Chapter 5: Developmental Changes in Twin Relationships by Barbara Klein

Chapter 6: “Alone Without the Mirror” I: Humans, Twins, and Loneliness by Stephen A. Hart

Chapter 7: “Alone Without the Mirror” II: Twins, Separation and Chronic Twin-Loneliness by Stephen A. Hart

Chapter 8: “In the Hall of Mirrors”: Twins Living in the Non-Twin World by Stephen A. Hart

Chapter 9: Estrangement Between Twins by Jacqueline M. Martinez

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

Conclusion

Bibliography

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