Koichi Togashi, Ph.D., L.P. is a Professor at Konan University, Kobe, Japan, and a Faculty and Training and Supervising Analyst at TRISP, New York, USA. He works in private practice in Kobe and Hiroshima, Japan.

Amanda Kottler, M.A. (Clinical Psychology) was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town for a number of years. She works in private practice in Cape Town, South Africa.

PREFACE Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Many Faces of Twinship: From The Psychology of the Self to The Psychology of Being Human

Chapter 2: A New Dimension of Twinship Selfobject Experience and Transference

Chapter 3: Twinship and "Otherness": A Self Psychological, Intersubjective Approach to "Difference"

Chapter 4: Mutual Finding of Oneself and Not-Oneself in the Other as a Twinship Experience

Chapter 5: Trauma, Recovery and Humanization: From Fantasy, to Transitional Selfobject, through a Twinship Tie

Chapter 6: Contemporary Self Psychology and Cultural Issues: "Self-Place Experience" in an Asian Culture

Chapter 7: Placeness in the Twinship Experience

Chapter 8: "I am afraid of seeing your face":Trauma and the dread of engaging in a twinship tie

Chapter 9: Is It a Problem for Us to Say, "It Is a Coincidence That the Patient Does Well"?

Chapter 10: Being Human and not being Human: The Evolution of a twinship experience

Epilogue What is "Being Human"?

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