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The Primal Wound :
Understanding the Adopted Child
by Nancy Newton Verrier |
Paperback
- 231 pages (April 1993)
Nancy Verrier; ISBN:
0963648004 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.57 x 8.98 x 6.03 rnk.3,701 |
A "must read" for anyone wanting to understand adoptees.
The Primal Wound offers keen insight into
the personal and inter-relational dynamics of adoptees, their adoptive
families, and birthparents. Nancy Verrier's experience as both a psychologist
and an adoptive mother gives her a distinct advantage over many authors,
allowing her to handle difficult aspects of the adoptive trauma with sensitivity
and accuracy. While many "adoption books" relate personal stories which
are necessarily subjective, The Primal Wound explores the behavioral attributes
of adoptees from the broad vantagepoint of personal and clinical obeservation.
To read this book is to experience an awakening. It leads the way to understanding
the trauma that a child's separation from their mother can cause, and gaining
understanding of ways in which to heal the emotional pain involved. The
Primal Wound is a "must read" for all who have been affected by adoption! |
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Being Adopted : The Lifelong Search
for Self
by David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schechter,
Robin Marantz Henig |
Paperback
- 213 pages Reprint edition (April 1993)
Anchor; ISBN: 0385414269
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.64 x 7.97 x 5.25 rnk.12,626 |
From the Publisher
Like Passages, this groundbreaking
book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents
to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major
work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths. |
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Lost and Found : The Adoption Experience
by Betty Jean Lifton |
Paperback
- 336 pages Reprint edition (February 1988)
HarperCollins (paper);
ISBN: 0060971320 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 7.99 x 5.33 rnk.13,770 |
From the Publisher
An eloquent exploration of the psychological issues surrounding
adoption. "Important and powerful . . . [the author] is concerned not just
with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents."--Psychology
Today |
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The Adoption Reader : Birth Mothers,
Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories
by Susan Wadia-Ells (Editor) |
Paperback
- 336 pages Reprint edition (February 1988)
HarperCollins (paper);
ISBN: 1878067656 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 7.99 x 5.33 rnk.27,786 |
From the author,
The Adoption Reader contains essays and stories by birth
mothers, adoptive mothers and adopted daughters. These diverse stories
of women's lives illustrate how women have moved through their adoption
journeys in order to name and claim their whole lives. The thirty essays
written by well known authors such as Louise Erdrich, Nancy Mairs, Shay
Youngblood, and Florence Fisher, along with many less established writers,
cover topics such as: open adoption; international adoption; lesbian families;
single parent adoptions; bi-racial adoptees; reunions; open records;special
needs children and foster parenting. This is a wonderful "gift book" for
birth mothers, adoptees, adoptive families and for clinicians and administrators
in the adoption field. |
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In Search of Mom : Journey of an Adoptee
by Michael C. Watson |
Paperback
- 216 pages (March 1998)
Gallery of Diamonds;
ISBN: 1891665294 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.53 x 5.41 rnk.478,330 |
For Anyone Touched by Adoption!
"In Search of Mom" offers inspiration to adoptees who
live in the darkness of not knowing their origins, and provides insight
for adoptive parents, those planning to adopt, and anyone touched by adoption.
This thrilling book gives a new sense of wonder about adoptees who undertake
the challenge of searching. |
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