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Title: Adoption Healing ...a path to recovery by Joe Soll ISBN: 0-9678390-0-9 Publisher: Liturgical Press Pub. Date: 20 March, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: Of all the adoption books I have read, Adoption Healing goes to the heart of the matter....The truth hurts and Soll pulls no punches. He has taken John Bradhaw's Inner Child work and modified it to help adopted people heal their wounds. He explains the mother/child bond that begins before birth in a very clear fashion and goes on to show how the effects of separation from one's mother at birth radiate through the psychological development of the adoptee and what can be done to help the adoptee deal with the pain of this loss.
I've gone to many adoption support groups over the years and heard many adoptees argue that they had no loss, become angry at those who do acknowledge the loss. Adoption Healing thoroughly explains why so many adoptees deny their pain, just as victims of sexual abuse have to deny the existence of their experience to survive.
If you have been affected by adoption and want to really understand the psychology of the adoptee, this book is for you.
It validated my adoption experience and has helped validate the experience of many of my adopted friends as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Adoption Healing...a path to recovery
Comment: Adoption Healing...a path to recovery, more than anything else gives HOPE to those of us who have traveled the adoption path, particularly adoptees and birthparents. Having been told in 1966 that by giving up my infant son to be adopted by people who could give him what I could not...a two parent home, a name, even legitimacy; I tried hard to believe when they told me I was doing the most loving thing a mother could do for her child in my circumstance. I was an 18 year old student with no husband in sight. I don't know if they really believed when they said I would get on with my life and I would forget this whole unfortunate experience and that I would go on to have plenty of other children.
Joe Soll's book speaks to the fact that THEY were really, really WRONG! You never forget and you really can't even totally get on with your life on some levels. Giving a child up for adoption is a very deep trauma and tragedy for a woman, and many can't even survive it. It's a form of soul-rape. While Joe gives exercises, tools and rituals to adoptees to understand their experience and even begin to heal; he also validates and acknowledges the pain and deep sense of grieving and loss the birthmothers live with. And although I have read several women authors who have written very eloquently about birthmother pain; this is the first male author that I've read who has deep understanding, wisdom and empathy for US. My heart was in my throat during much of this book, but I also felt that Adoption Healing should be required reading for Adoptees and Birthmothers, AND those who love us. This is an excellent and very well written book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Adoption Healing: A Path to Recovery
Comment: Joe Soll draws heavily from John Bradshaw's works about "inner child" healing. The reader is encouraged to heal through self-affirmations. I also recommend that triad members read Sherrie Eldridge's books.
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Title: The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verrier ISBN: 0963648004 Publisher: Nancy Verrier Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Twenty Life Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make by Sherrie Eldridge ISBN: 1576833070 Publisher: Pinon Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness by Betty Jean Lifton ISBN: 0465036759 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Being Adopted : The Lifelong Search for Self by Marshall D. Schecter, Robin Marantz Henig, David M. Brodzinsky ISBN: 0385414269 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Whose Child? : An Adoptee's Healing Journey from Relinquishment through Reunion ... and Beyond by Kasey Hamner ISBN: 0967414504 Publisher: Triad Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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