Article Title

The Real Mother-Issues in Adoption

Authors

Penelope J. Hooks, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas

Abstract

Our society has deemed adoption a desirable alternative method of creating a family. It satisifies the need of a child for parents, it gratifies the desire of adults who yearn to provide a home and love for a child, and it gracefully solves the dilemma for the one who cannot or will not raise the child. In addition to the usual developmental conflicts, families involved in adoption will encounter a variety of fears, fantasies, resentments, and misconceptions which may adversely affect identity formation in the child. Here I will attempt to explore some of the psychodynamic issues which will be of help to beginning therapists in their work with adoptive families.

Recommended Citation

Hooks, M.D., Penelope J. (1990) "The Real Mother-Issues in Adoption," Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry: Vol. 8: Iss. 2, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29046/JJP.008.2.005
Available at: https://jdc.jefferson.edu/jeffjpsychiatry/vol8/iss2/8