The emotional experience of adoption a psychoanalytic perspective /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Developing a curiosity about adoption: a psychoanalytic perspective / John Simmonds
- Why is early development important? / Sally Wassell
- Understanding an adopted child: a child psychotherapist's perspective / Lisa Miller
- Multiple families in mind / Margaret Rustin
- Enabling effective support: secondary traumatic stress and adoptive families / Kate Cairns
- The network around adoption: the forever family and the ghosts of the dispossessed / Jenny Sprince
- The mermaid: moving towards reality after trauma / Caroline Case
- On being dropped and picked up: the plight of some late-adopted children / Judith Edwards
- 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 / Monica Lanyado
- Just pretend: the importance of symbolic play and its interpretation in intensive psychotherapy with a four-year-old adopted boy / Francesca Calvocoressi
- The longing to become a family: support for the parental couple / Molly Ludlam
- Shared reflections on parallel collaborative work with adoptive families / Francesca Calvocoressi and Molly Ludlam
- Loss, recovery and adoption: a child's perspective / Debbie Hindle
- Oedipal difficulties in the triangular relationship between the parents, the child and the child psychotherapist / Pamela Bartram
- Deprivation and development: the predicament of an adopted adolescent in the search for identity / Tessa Dalley and Valli Kohon
- Adoption and adolescence: idealisation and overvalued ideas / Sheila Spensley
- A cautionary tale of adoption: fictional lives and living fictions / Graham Shulman.