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Twin Loss: The Annual Convention / Twin Research Reviews: Childhood Empathy; Hormone Replacement Therapy and Skeletal Muscle; Multiple Birth Conception in Older Women / Twins in the Media: Twins With Kidney Disease; A Pair of Poets; The Other Twins in the Metrodome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Nancy L. Segal
Nancy L. Segal*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, United States of America. nsegal@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU
*
*Address for correspondence: Nancy L. Segal, Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA.

Abstract

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Loss of a twin has been largely overlooked by bereavement counselors and clinicians. This particular type of loss is also poorly understood among the public. Consequently, some bereaved twins have established a unique organization, Twinless Twins Support Group International, for the purpose of sharing this traumatic life experience with one another. The present article reviews events from the annual convention of Twinless Twins, held in July 2009, in Denver, Colorado. Selected findings from research on twin loss are also presented. Next, twin research concerned with the origins and implications of empathy, hormone replacement therapy and multiple birth conception will be reviewed. This article concludes with summaries of real life stories of twins' kidney disease, literary talent and retirement festivities.

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News, Views, and Comments
Information
Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , 01 October 2009 , pp. 519 - 522
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009