Twin Institutes: From the Mendel Institute in Rome to the Gedda Institute in Jerusalem

Paolo Parisi
1974 Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae  
In the academic year 1973-74, the Mendel Institute, within the specialized services it offers to Italian twins, instituted psychopedagogic counseling for the purpose of assisting twins and their families. This service is carried out in the intermediate field between neuropsychiatry and social assistance. Gases involving family and social maladjustment were referring for counseling. During the period of time mentioned above, the counseling service exam-ined 96 cases, of which 58 involved
more » ... of school retardation and 38 involved family maladjustment because of changed parenttwin relationships. The counseling service aimed at achieving improved family and school relationships by means of various therapeutic interventions. The work of psychopedagogic consultation, besides the immediate therapy, has permitted deeper study of maladjustment by means of analyses of the twins' condition as a possible additional cause of the maladjustment itself. Analysis of the cases in this limited sample would seem to indicate an indirect incidence of the twin situation per se (couple effect), somewhat emphasized by the family and social environment.
doi:10.1017/s1120962300023490 fatcat:q747kop3lffmzjc56kwcu43myq