{"product_id":"the-emotional-experience-of-adoption-9780415372763","title":"The Emotional Experience of Adoption","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdoption 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, \u003cem\u003eThe Emotional Experience of Adoption\u003c\/em\u003e explores issues such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe emotional experience of children placed for adoption, and how this both shapes and is shaped by unconscious processes in the child's inner world \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An interesting, informative and enjoyable read, the volume conveys core psychoanalytic ideas relevant to adoption and insights into therapeutic processes in a very vivid and accessible fashion.' \u003cem\u003e- Malcolm Hill,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eGlasgow School of Social Work, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Focusing on the trauma experienced by most adopted children prior to being taken into care, this book conveys the damage these children have sustained and the impact of this on their new family and the professionals involved. Psychoanalytic ideas both help understanding and provide a means of amelioration by offering treatment possibilities and a consultation framework. An accessible but painful book to read.' \u003cem\u003e- Judith Trowell, West Midlands Care Service Improvement Partnership and University of Worcester, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Setting the Scene\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eDeveloping a curiosity about adoption: a psychoanalytic perspective 2.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eWhy is early development important? 3.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eUnderstanding an adopted child: a child psychotherapist’s perspective \u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Unconscious Dynamics in Systems and Networks\u003c\/strong\u003e 4.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eMultiple families in mind 5.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eEnabling effective support: secondary traumatic stress and adoptive families 6.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe network around adoption: the forever family and the ghosts of the dispossessed \u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Primitive States of Mind and their Impact on Relationships \u003c\/strong\u003e7.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe mermaid: moving towards reality after trauma 8.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eOn being dropped and picked up: the plight of some late-adopted children \u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Belonging and Becoming: Transitions\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ePlaying out, not acting out: the development of the capacity to play in the therapy of children who are ‘in transition’ from fostering to adoption 10.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eJust pretend: the importance of symbolic play and its interpretation in intensive psychotherapy with a four year-old adopted boy 11.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe longing to become a family: support for the parental couple 12. Shared reflections on parallel collaborative work with adoptive families. \u003cstrong\u003ePart V: Being Part of a Family: Oedipal Issues\u003c\/strong\u003e 13. Loss, recovery and adoption: a child’s perspective 14. Oedipal difficulties in the triangular relationship between the parents, the child and the child psychotherapist \u003cstrong\u003ePart VI: Adoption and Adolescence: The Question of Identity\u003c\/strong\u003e 15. Deprivation and development: the predicament of an adopted adolescent in the search for identity 16.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eIdealisation and overvalued ideas \u003cstrong\u003eFurther Reflections \u003c\/strong\u003e17. A cautionary tale of adoption: fictional lives and living fictions \u003cstrong\u003eFinal Thoughts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090686112087,"sku":"9780415372763","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415372763.jpg?v=1762273083","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-emotional-experience-of-adoption-9780415372763","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}