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New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness
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By Barbara Klein, Stephen A. Hart, Jacqueline M. Martinez
How important is it to get along with your twin? Do special New Year's resolutions apply?
Review of our new book about twin relationships, available in late December 2020
"New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness."
Barbara S. Klein, Stephen Hart, and Jacqueline Martinez.
“A remarkable work. In reading the manuscript, I learned of the importance and endurance of the twin relationship. I also found that twins must respond to a wider world. These life stories are compelling and inspirational. The book has opened my eyes to an essential area of human and social development.”
~John McNeil
Professor Emeritus
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Endorsement for our new book out in late December: New Understandings of Twin Relationships
“ ‘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
Endorsement for our new book out in late December: New Understandings of Twin Relationships
“As an academic and parent of twins, I love the combination of theory and lived experience in this book. The scholarly, evidence based approach is confidence inspiring, and, combined with the author’s lived experience of being a twin and working with twins, you know are in very good hands here. As a parent of twins who is not a twin, this book gave me a window into my twins’ lives that I didn’t have before, giving me a greater understanding of who and how they are and how they develop, and what challenges they face as twins. It also brought me face to face with and corrected my own assumptions about their lives that were not accurate. It’s a book I’ll return to more than once as I navigate parenting twins, and I highly recommend it to any parents of twins!”
Erin McCarthy, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
St. Lawrence University
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New Understandings of Twin Relationships. An endorsement of our new book out in December
"An excellent book to help me figure out more about why I feel certain ways. Moving cities three times in five years, away from my twin, I’ve wondered sometimes why finding friends was so important to me. But then after that, why I wasn’t happy with the people I was meeting; there was always something missing in the bond.
Reading Dr. Martinez's words about seeing the love on people's faces, knowing co-workers or others care about you yet not able to feel it internally, finally put words to this phenomenon. Dr. Klein’s work has helped me to understand this feeling and others that come from being a twin. Her books have helped me to realize I’m normal for a twin who is living apart from her twin.”
- Jordan Drayer, 30, voice actress, identical twin
New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness.
Review of our new book out in Deceomber 2020 by Barbara S. Klein, Stephen Hart, and Jacqueline Martinez.
"Dr. Barbara Klein is the great pioneer of twin psychology. Her work illuminates the complex emotionality and often profound development challenges inherent in the twin relationship – phenomena which traditional therapy and the non-twin world not only misunderstand, but lack even general awareness of.
'New Understandings of Twin Relationships' 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 Pritchard, writer, musician, identical twin