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Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists we begin to understand the impact of adoption in all its complexity. We learn from parents how their quest to have and raise a child has played out in real life, and what shadows might have fallen between the dream and the reality. And we learn from the children the many ways that being adopted shaped their development, their sense of identity; what went wrong along the way and how we may help. Clinical work with parents and children as well as with adults who were adopted is the focus of Understanding Adoption. Because adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and because it has greatly changed the composition of families, it is a timely subject for study. The authors of this book undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds.
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Understanding Adoption
Understanding Adoption Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Edited by Kathleen Hushion, Susan B. Sherman, and Diana Siskind
JASON ARONSON
Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Oxford
Published in the United States of America by Jason Aronson An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com PO Box 317 Oxford OX29RU, UK Copyright © 2006 by Jason Aronson Chapter 2, "Unconscious Communication and the Transmission of Loss," reprinted from the Journal of Infant, Child, & Adolescent Psychotherapy 3, no. 1, pp. 1-27, with permission of The Analytic Press, a division of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Understanding adoption : clinical work with adults, children, and parents I edited by Kathleen Hushion, Susan Sherman, and Diana Siskind. p.cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-7657-0425-2 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7657-0425-0 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7657-0426-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7657-0426-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Adoption. 2. Adoption-Psychological aspects. I. Hushion, Kathleen, 1950- II. Sherman, Susan, 1946- Ill. Siskind, Diana. HV875.U48 2006 362.734-dc22
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