The world of adoption : an introduction / by Diana Siskind -- Unconscious communication and the transmission of loss / by Christopher Bonovitz -- International adoption : projection and externalization in the treatment of a four-year-old-girl and her parents / by Kathleen Hushion -- Working with parents of internationally adopted infants and toddlers / by Carole Lapidus -- Gay and lesbian parents in the world of adoption / by Sandra Silverman -- Losing each other in the wake of loss : failed dialogues in adoptive families / by Susan C. Warshaw -- The adoption of foster children who suffered early trauma and object loss : implications for practice / by Vivian B. Shapiro and Janet R. Shapiro -- Secrecy in the psychotherapy of a severely traumatized adopted child / by Jerrold R. Brandell -- Adoption fantasy in the treatment of two adolescent girls / by Jane Hanenberg -- Identity and identification : being different and the quest to belong in an adopted young adult / by Susan B. Sherman -- The plight of the adoptee in adult life : a case of kinship adoption / by Cathy Seibold -- Loss, belonging, identity, and the dynamics of an adoptee's identification with her birth mother / by Jeffrey Seinfeld -- Child custody disputes in adoption cases : safeguarding the relationship with the psychological parent / by Paul Hymowitz -- Consultation during the adoption process : working with families adopting older Russian children / by Laurie Sloane -- Birth parents and adoptive parents : who are the real parents? / by Alice van der Pas.
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This book brings together the range, variety, complexity, and impact of adoption on everyone involved. It refers to the complex challenges adoption can pose to child and adult development, and also illuminates the potential for secure identity and joyful engagement in the future for each person in the adoptive configuration.