Research Catalog

Title

Not all twins are alike : psychological profiles of twinship / Barbara Schave Klein ; forward by Marjorie Ford.

Author

Klein, Barbara Schave.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

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Details

Description

xix, 133 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "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 relationship 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Twins > Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-129) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Marjorie Ford -- 1. The Ultimate Closeness : Growing Up with Your Mirror Image -- 2. Separation : A Crucial Formative Experience -- 3. The Identity Dilemma -- 4. Too Close for Comfort? Issues of Adult Twins -- 5. The Twinning Bond -- 6. Twins and Psychotherapy -- 7. Genetic Endowment and the Environment -- 8. The Legacy of Twinship -- 9. Parenting Twins -- App. I. Demographic Breakdown -- App. II. Pairs of Twins.

ISBN

0275975843 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002029758

OCLC

• ocm50403773
• SCSB-4343908

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries