Creating a placement for children: opening minds and shutting doors? | |
Talking about relationships and thinking about development: a psychoanalytic perspective | |
Psychoanalytic thinking about the adoption process | |
The mermaid: moving towards reality after trauma | |
On being dropped and picked up: adopted children and their internal objects | |
The emotional tasks of moving from fostering to adoption: transitions, attachment, separation and loss | |
Just pretend | |
Becoming a 'creative couple' | |
Becoming a baby: discovering dependency in the context of a family | |
Loss and recovery and adoption: a child's perspective | |
Some Oedipal problems in work with adopted children and their parents | |
The Lionocerous: an adopted boy's struggle to find himself | |
A five year old's dilemmas and struggles with belonging | |
The forever family and the ghosts of the dispossessed | |
Conclusion | |
Setting the Scene | |
Developing a curiosity about adoption: a psychoanalytic perspective | |
Why is early development important? | |
Understanding an adopted child: a child psychotherapist's perspective | |
Unconscious Dynamics in Systems and Networks | |
Multiple families in mind | |
Enabling effective support: secondary traumatic stress and adoptive families | |
The network around adoption: the forever family and the ghosts of the dispossessed | |
Primitive States of Mind and their Impact on Relationships | |
The mermaid: moving towards reality after trauma | |
On being dropped and picked up: the plightof some late-adopted children | |
Belonging and Becoming: Transitions | |
Playing out, not acting out: the development of the capacity to play in the therapy of children who are 'in transition' from fostering to adoption | |
Just pretend: the importance of symbolic play and its interpretation in intensive psychotherapy with a four year-old adopted boy | |
The longing to become a family: support for the parental couple | |
Shared reflections on parallel collaborative work with adoptive families | |
Being Part of a Family: Oedipal Issues | |
Loss, recovery and adoption: a child's perspective | |
Oedipal difficulties in the triangular relationship between the parents, the child and the child psychotherapist | |
Adoption and Adolescence: the Question of Identity | |
Deprivation and development: the predicament of an adopted adolescent in the search for identity | |
Idealisation and overvalued ideas | |
Further Reflections | |
A cautionary tale of adoption: fictional lives and living fictions | |
Final Thoughts | |
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