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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.
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.
Alone in the Mirror: Twins in Therapy chronicles the triumphs and
struggles of twins as they separate from one another and find their
individuality in a world of non twins. The text is grounded in
issues of attachment and intimacy, and is highlighted by Dr.
Barbara Klein s scholarly research, clinical experiences with twins
in therapy, and her own identity struggles as a twin, all of which
allow her to present insights into the rare, complicated, and
misunderstood twin identity. She presents psychologically-focused
real life histories, which demonstrate how childhood experiences
shape the twin attachment and individual development, and she
describes implications for twins in therapy, their therapists, and
parents of twins. Unique to this book are effective therapeutic
practices, developed specifically for twins, and designed to raise
the consciousness of parents as well. Readers will find these
practices and the insights within invaluable, whether they use them
to communicate with twin patients, family members, or if they are
part of a twinship themselves.
Women of color remain arguably the most economically, politically,
and socially marginalized group in the United States and the Third
World. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished
contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the
racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as
a sort of 'war, ' experienced daily by women of color.
Communicative Sexualities: Queer and Feminist Theories in Practice,
by Jacqueline M. Martinez, provides an argument for and
illustration of how to pursue the direct study of students'
lived-experiences of sexuality in a classroom or academic setting.
It illustrates how communicology, and its methodological practice
of semiotic phenomenology, allows for a sustained and rigorous
study of the meaningfulness of sexual experience as it becomes
manifest in the immediate, concrete, and embodied realities in the
lives of those taking up such a study. The generous use of extended
examples from actual classroom experience allows for a detailed
consideration of the applied research methodology, as well as the
ethical issues involved in making students' lived-experience of
sexuality the main subject matter of the course. A major concern of
Communicative Sexualities is to make explicit the many
presuppositions about sex, gender, and sexuality that students and
professors bring into the classroom. Martinez's text features
detailed discussions of how to study lived-experience sexuality as
the subject matter of research. It considers the steps necessary in
suspending presuppositions regarding sexuality and gender, and
focuses particular attention on the many presuppositions associated
with the heterosexual-homosexual binary. Sexuality is understood as
inherently good, yet also capable of becoming a means of
perpetuating human isolation and degradation as much as an
experience of tremendously shared human intimacy and mutual
recognition. Discussions of historical context, the fact of
temporality, and the intersection of person and culture provide a
basis for explicit discussions of semiotics and phenomenology in
communicology. As an introductory text, Communicative Sexualities:
Queer and Feminist Theories in Practice, by Jacqueline M. Martinez,
is an excellent primer for the advanced study of communicology and
semiotic phenomenology. It one of very few texts that provides both
a theoretical or philosophical discussion of phenomenology with the
study of sexuality and gender as an explicit subject matter.
Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience, by
Jacqueline M. Martinez, provides an argument for and illustration
of how to pursue the direct study of students' lived-experiences of
sexuality in a classroom or academic setting. It illustrates how
communicology, and its methodological practice of semiotic
phenomenology, allows for a sustained and rigorous study of the
meaningfulness of sexual experience as it manifests in the
immediate, concrete, and embodied realities in the lives of those
taking up such a study. Examples from actual classroom experience
allows for a detailed consideration of the applied research
methodology, as well as the ethical issues involved in making
students' experience of sexuality the main subject of the course.
Martinez's text features detailed discussions of how to study the
lived-experience of sexuality as the subject matter of research. It
considers the steps necessary in suspending presuppositions
regarding sexuality and gender, particularly those associated with
the heterosexual-homosexual binary. Sexuality is understood as
inherently good, yet also capable of becoming a means of
perpetuating human isolation and degradation as much as an
experience of tremendously shared human intimacy and mutual
recognition. As an introductory text, Jacqueline M. Martinez's
Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience is
an excellent primer for the advanced study of communicology and
semiotic phenomenology as related to the lived-experiences of
sexuality and gender.
Using narrative descriptions of the author's own lived-experience
of her ethnic heritage, Martinez offers a systematic interrogation
of the social and cultural norms by which certain aspects of her
Mexican-American cultural heritage are both retained and lost over
generations of assimilation. Combining semiotic and existential
phenomenology with Chicana feminism, the author charts new terrain
where anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic work may be
pursued.
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