BEING OF TWO MINDSBy

Pamela F. service

Reviewed by-Dr. Md. Abdul AlimRoll No-6408

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Author-• Pamela F. Service is a science fiction and fantasy

writer.• She started her life as an archaeologist. • She studied Egyptology, Politics and

Archaeology and completed her masters from the University of London.

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Book-Published in 1991Published by:

Maxwell MacMillan Publishing Company, New York.

14 chapters and 169 pages.Design by Patrice Fodero.

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Introduction• A story about telepathic relationship

between a fourteen years old boy with a girl of the same age.

• Living far apart, they can communicate with each other by their mind which can visit to one another.

• Both of them kept this phenomenon as a special secret.

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Introduction (contd.)

• Kidnapping of the boy brings a different theme on the story.

• The girl had to reveal the secret to save her life long friend.

• A dangerous race; where lives and the fate of a Kingdom were at stake.

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Subject Matter

• Constance Hendricks addressed as Connie, a fourteen years old girl and Rudolph addressed by Rudy, also a fourteen years old crown prince of neutral European Kingdom of "Thulgharia";

• Both experiences a common problem since

birth.

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Subject Matter (contd.)An identical mind: causes sudden dizzy spells leading to

several hours of unconsciousness remaining unexplained and uncontrolled.

Shared secret: when one passed out, it enters to the mind

of other and see and hear what the other did for an hour or two.

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Subject Matter (contd.)

• Problems: results of this strange spells of seizure

Social and family problems for Conney Heir ship to the monarchy got uncertain

for Rudy• Connie or Rudy didn't know why the seizure

happened or found any way to control them and neither wanted to be cured-of, rather consider it to be a valuable friendship.

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Subject Matter (contd.)

Thulgarian state visit-Rudy met Conney in Chicago and both found as comfortable with each other in person as in their minds.

After return to Europe, Rudy was kidnapped by political opportunists while Connie was mentally with him.

Connie was the only person on the planet who knew what happened to Rudy.

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Subject Matter (contd.)

Flying to Thulgaria she revealed the secret and made others to believe it. Finally she was able to rescue him.

Then they discovered that being near, each could see and hear what the other did without unconsciousness: proximity was clearly a future necessity.

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Criticism :Well developed characterGood language and printing Credulity: Bilingual charactersRescue scenes seem unbelievableLack of romance & refreshing.Not very realistic.

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Comparative Study

Another book named “Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy” written by Arnold Goldberg.

In this book, much of the approach to behavior disorders and its associated vertical split has been directed to issues of self-control and/or punishment.

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ConclusionDespite all the fictions the truth is - Everyone wants a

friend who truly understands each other; and this is a great manifestation of that desire.

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