Emotional experience of adoption: a psychoanalytic perspective/ edited by Debbie Hindle and Graham Shulam

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.