The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

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ISBN: 9780203929360 | 0203929365
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Copyright: 4/10/2008

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This book demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families. It illustrates how psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help both as a treatment and as a distinctive source of understanding for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted.

Creating a placement for children: opening minds and shutting doors?
Talking about relationships and thinking about development: a psychoanalytic perspective
Psychoanalytic thinking about the adoption process
The mermaid: moving towards reality after trauma
On being dropped and picked up: adopted children and their internal objects
The emotional tasks of moving from fostering to adoption: transitions, attachment, separation and loss
Just pretend
Becoming a 'creative couple'
Becoming a baby: discovering dependency in the context of a family
Loss and recovery and adoption: a child's perspective
Some Oedipal problems in work with adopted children and their parents
The Lionocerous: an adopted boy's struggle to find himself
A five year old's dilemmas and struggles with belonging
The forever family and the ghosts of the dispossessed
Conclusion
Setting the Scene
Developing a curiosity about adoption: a psychoanalytic perspective
Why is early development important?
Understanding an adopted child: a child psychotherapist's perspective
Unconscious Dynamics in Systems and Networks
Multiple families in mind
Enabling effective support: secondary traumatic stress and adoptive families
The network around adoption: the forever family and the ghosts of the dispossessed
Primitive States of Mind and their Impact on Relationships
The mermaid: moving towards reality after trauma
On being dropped and picked up: the plightof some late-adopted children
Belonging and Becoming: Transitions
Playing out, not acting out: the development of the capacity to play in the therapy of children who are 'in transition' from fostering to adoption
Just pretend: the importance of symbolic play and its interpretation in intensive psychotherapy with a four year-old adopted boy
The longing to become a family: support for the parental couple
Shared reflections on parallel collaborative work with adoptive families
Being Part of a Family: Oedipal Issues
Loss, recovery and adoption: a child's perspective
Oedipal difficulties in the triangular relationship between the parents, the child and the child psychotherapist
Adoption and Adolescence: the Question of Identity
Deprivation and development: the predicament of an adopted adolescent in the search for identity
Idealisation and overvalued ideas
Further Reflections
A cautionary tale of adoption: fictional lives and living fictions
Final Thoughts
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The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

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