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Development I: Birth to 5 Years
October 30, 2020 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD
Kelly Lippman, LMHC
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October 30, 2020 — Adoption
[39 pages]
Adopted individuals are overrepresented in the clinical population and understanding the unique and complex object relations world set in motion by adoption is necessary when working with patients whose adoption experience reverberates throughout the lifespan. In the modern era, the advent of open adoption has allowed for explicit exploration of the multilayered dynamics of loss, idealization, fantasy, psychic splits and identification in adoption.
de Peyer, J. (2013). Sequestered Selves: Discussion of Adoption Roundtable. Psychoanal. Perspect., 10(1):149-168.
Edwards, J. (2000). On being dropped and picked up: Adopted children and their internal objects. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 26(3):349-367.
Optional Reading
Freedgood, B. (2013). Loss and Resilience form a family: An adoption story from a relational point of view. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, (10)1:20-41
