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.
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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.
Emotional experience of adoption.
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Adopted children-- Psychology.
Adoption-- Psychological aspects.
Adoption-- psychology.
Adopted children-- Psychology.
Adoption-- Psychological aspects.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Children with Special Needs.