SDPA Committee - More Than Meets the Eye: The Psychology of Twins

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TWINS

Produced By: SDPA Child and Youth Committee

Facilitated By:  Dr. Joan A. Friedman

DATE/TIME:
August 9, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

LOCATION:
662 Encinitas Blvd #228 
Encinitas, CA 92024  

If interested email Ruth Orellana at ruth.drabby@gmail.com for more information.

• Overview of attachment literature as it pertains to twin development
  
• Outline of challenging parenting dilemmas and corrective interventions
  
• Summary of developmental hurdles unique to twins
  
• Recognition of particular ways in which treating a twin in therapy differs from treating a singleton patient.

Dr. Joan A. Friedman is a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist who has devoted many years of her professional career to educating twins and their families about twins’ emotional needs. Having worked through her own twinship challenges and parented her fraternal twin sons, she is a definitive expert on twin development.

She is the author of Emotionally Healthy Twins: A New Philosophy for Parenting Two Unique Children and The Same but Different: How Twins Can Live, Love, and Learn to Be Individuals. Her latest book, Twins in Session: Case Histories in Treating Twinship Issues, will be published in June 2018. It is a book written for psychotherapists and educators who require specialized knowledge and insight about twin psychology to be effective professionals. She has spoken to and consulted with culturally diverse groups of twins around the world. Dr. Friedman’s work focuses on issues that adult twins confront as they adjust to life as singletons after having been raised as twins.