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Comments on and Extracts from: The Death of a Twin: Mourning and Anniversary Reactions — Fragments of 10 years of Self-Analysis by George Engel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Elizabeth Bryan  and
Ronald Higgins
Elizabeth Bryan*
Affiliation:
Multiple Births Foundation, London, UK. [email protected]
Ronald Higgins
Affiliation:
Multiple Births Foundation, London, UK.
*
*Address for correspondence: Elizabeth Bryan, The Multiple Births Foundation, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS

Abstract

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Only recently has the special bereavement associated with the loss of a twin been generally recognised. With the notable exception of Joan Woodward, few have written on the subject. We, therefore, offer a shortened version of a paper written nearly 30 years ago. George Engel was himself a lone twin as well as being an eminent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in the United States. The length of the paper precludes reprinting the totality but we hope readers will be encouraged to seek out the original published in The International Journal of Psycho-analysis in 1975, Vol 56 part 1, 23–40 .

Type
Literature Review
Information
Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , 01 June 2002 , pp. 206 - 209
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002