ABSTRACT
Liz and David were a very warm, affable married couple living in suburban London. They were both Caucasian in origin, in their early thirties and university educated. Though they worked in quite different spheres, creativity and the arts were highly valued by both of them- personally and professionally. Etterley Toby made contact with them through a mutual acquaintance who informed him that the couple were having twins, that this was their first pregnancy, and that they were keen to participate in a mother-infants observation. In this first meeting, and even before the twins were born, there was a sense of a couple working together and as a unit. The term "symbiosis" was utilised by Mahler to describe the very primitive stage in the development of a child during which his identity is fused with that of his mother.
