Barbara Klein, Ed.D.

"In a time of e-books, self-publishing, and streams of blogs, the issue of text validation is paramount. Publishers today are more selective in what they publish than ever before. They are aware of the contradiction --- multiple sources, but a shortage of those books where the authors thoroughly know their subjects. Alone in the Mirror is such a rare find, a text one can turn to with confidence by an author whose personal life, education and professional practice uniquely enable her to authoritatively share new light on the nature of being a twin, the conditions for successful parenting of twins, and ways to help both twins and their caregivers as they confront situations related to mental health and well-being.

The reader will find what relevant science tells us about twins, but more than that, Dr. Klein shares her personal developmental life, vividly enabling the reader to experience life as a twin. And through first-hand case studies of twins and caregivers in therapeutic sessions, one gains understanding of difficulties confronted and the most promising routes to resolving them. The reader will gain new knowledge of individualization in twins and the importance of accepting their individual differences. Reading the exposition and the engaging moving narratives, one is awakened to the importance of twin attachment and how attachment in twins plays out at different periods in their lives. Many readers will be surprised by what is good and bad parenting and the likely effects upon the twins. Among the many nuggets in this book, one can learn how all of us might better our friendship with a twin.

Alone in the Mirror is not only unique in its comprehensiveness --- presenting scientific content together with its relevance for professional practitioners, for twins as well as their loved ones, for associates and those seeking enlightenment about the world of twins --- it is written as a humanity illuminating central problems of life and death and responding to them in inspiring ways.
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John D. McNeil
Professor Emeritus
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
UCLA