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), this book describes the inner workings of the twin-world, showing how it creates experiences that are often more intense and intricately textured than those in the singleton-world.
Key Features
- Debunks myths surrounding twinship.
- Analyses the developmental stages of the twin relationship.
- Explores the effect of being a twin on mental health from different perspectives.
- Details psychological challenges that twins face throughout their lifetime.
- Aims to help psychologists, scholars, clinicians, and twins attain a deeper understanding of interpersonal relationships.
Additional Information
Chapters include vignettes from twins across the globe and articulate how attachment, separation anxiety, loneliness, estrangement, and the subjective experience of the twin and non-twin "other" impact behaviour, thinking, and feeling.
