Product Description: This book is a unique contribution to the field of adoption. It documents experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process -- adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and professionals. It is informed by psychoanalytic and social and cultural theory perspectives and so provides an important dimension to social policy, welfare work and the personal accounts.

Based on the premise that fantasy and emotion are integral parts of experience and effect the nature of thought itself The Dynamics of Adoption reflects on the feelings detailed in the personal accounts deepening the debate on loss, feelings of abandonment and the dynamics of attachment. Using a more psychoanalytic clinical framework the viewpoints of the professionals are used to explore the feelings and fantasies of the families involved producing new insight into the vexed dynamics involved in adoption.