The adoptive family facing the wound of belonging: comparing paternal and maternal roles

Journal title PSICOBIETTIVO
Author/s Roberto De Falco
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 81-94 File size 667 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSOB2024-002006
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The relational dynamic of parental couples, who have an adopted adolescent child, does not seem to have receveid the same amount of interest dedicated to their children. The author’s effort is to gather various clinical experiences about couples during both the pre and post adoption phases. The focus will be on specific couples’ evolutions during the adolescence of their children. Children who have to integrate within themselves the sense of loss and their belonging, and parents who live the difficult separation from a child who, with so much suffering, has integrated into their own life’s tissue.

Keywords: adolescence, psychotherapy, couple, adoption, separation

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Roberto De Falco, La famiglia adottiva davanti alla ferita dell’appartenenza Funzioni paterne e funzioni materne a confronto in "PSICOBIETTIVO" 2/2024, pp 81-94, DOI: 10.3280/PSOB2024-002006