The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted ChildThe Primal Wound is a book which is revolutionizing the way we think about adoption. In its application of information about pre- and perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding, and loss, it clarifies the effects of separation from the birth mother on adopted children. In addition, it gives those children, whose pain has long been unacknowledged or misunderstood, validation for their feelings, as well as explanations for their behavior. Since its original publication in 1993, The Primal Wound has become a classic in adoption literature and is considered the adoptees' bible. The insight which is brought to the experiences of abandonment and loss will contribute not only to the healing of adoptees, adoptive families, and birth parents, but will bring understanding and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt abandoned. |
Contents
The Wound | 1 |
Adoption as a Concept | 9 |
The Trauma of the Abandonment and Adoption | 15 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abandonment able abuse accept acknowledge actually adopted children adoptive families adoptive mother adoptive parents adult allow anger anxiety attachment avoid baby become begin behavior believe better biological mother birth birthmother bonding cause child close connection conscious daughter deal described difficult early effect emotional especially expectations experience express fact father fear feelings felt friends give given going guilt happened healing idea impact important infant issues keep kind lack leave lives look loss lost matter means memory never one's original pain perhaps person possible present primal problems psychological reason rejection relate relationship relinquishment remember responsibility result reunion seems sense separation situation society someone sometimes suffered talk tell things told trauma true trust trying unconscious understanding victim women wound