Abstract
Treatment issues relevant to the psychoanalytic treatment of the adoptee are presented; clinical formulation is encouraged within broad ego-diagnostic parameters. The adoptee's internal cathexis of the biological mother is identified as a core dynamic and the binary transference involving the adoptee's displaced relation to a dual set of parental representations is described. A metapsychological bias, predicated upon differential perceptions of the status of self and object representations is described and related to the adoptee's treatment. Various transference/countertransference dyads are discussed, as are corresponding technical considerations.
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Deeg, C. Issues of Psychoanalytic Technique with Adoptees. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless 11, 193–205 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014368002708
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