"Hindle, Debbie (ed.)" <br/><br/>
Emotional experience of adoption: a psychoanalytic perspective/ edited by Debbie Hindle and Graham Shulam 

 - London  Routledge  2008 
 - 280p. 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/>Drawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, The Emotional Experience of Adoption explores issues such as:<br/><br/>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<br/>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<br/>how such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415372763 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Child adoption-Psychology
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>155.445 EMO