The Emotional Experience of Adoption A Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Synopsis

Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families.
Drawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, The Emotional Experience of Adoption explores issues such as:

the emotional experience of children placed for adoption, and how this both shapes and is shaped by unconscious processes in the child’s inner world
how psychoanalytic child psychotherapy can help as a distinctive source of understanding and as a treatment for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted
how such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers.
The Emotional Experience of Adoption explains and accounts for the emotional and psychological complexities involved for child, parents and professionals in adoption. It will be of interest and relevance to anyone involved at a personal level in the adoption process or professionals working in the fields of adoption, social work, child mental health, foster care and family support.

Book details

Author:
Debbie Hindle, Graham Shulman
ISBN:
9781134192618
Related ISBNs:
9780203929360, 9780415372763, 9780415372763, 9780415372756, 9780415372756
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
284
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-04-17
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2008
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology