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REFERENCES

Bowlby, J. (1973). Attachment and Loss (Vol. II: Separation). New York: Basic Books.

Brazelton, T. B. (1982). Pre-birth memories appear to have lasting effect. Brain/Mind Bulletin, 7(5),2.

Brinich, P. (1980). Some potential effects of adoption on self and object representations. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 35, 107-133.

Clothier, F. (1943). The psychology of the adopted child. Mental Hygiene, 27, 222-230.

Donovan, D., & McIntyre, D. (1990). Healing the Hurt Child. New York: W.W. Norton.

Freud, S. (1990). Family Romances. Standard Edition, 9, 235-241.

Goldstein, J. (1939). In R. May, The Meaning of Anxiety. New York: Ronald Press Co. (1950), p. 292.

Greenacre, P. (1953). Trauma, Growth and Personality. London: Hogarth.

Liedloff, J. (1975). The Continuum Concept. New York: Warner Books.

Machtiger, H. (1985). Perilous beginnings: Loss, abandonment, and transformation. Chiron, 101-129.

Mahler, M., Pine, F., & Bergman, A. (1975). The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant.

New York: Basic Books.

May, R. (1950). The Meaning of Anxiety. New York: Ronald Press, Co.

Neumann, E. (1973). The Child. New York: G. P. Putnam.

Schechter, M., Carlson, P., Simmons, J., & Work, H. (1964). Emotional problems in the adoptee.

Archives of General Psychiatry., 10, 109-118.

Simon, N., & Senturia, A. (1966). Adoption and psychiatric illness. American Journal of Psychiatry,122, 858-868.

Small, J. (1987). Working with adoptive families. Public Welfare, 33-48.

Sorosky, A., Baran, A., & Pannor, R. (1978). The Adoption Triangle. New York: Anchor Press.

Stone, F. (1972). Adoption and identity. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2 (3), 120-128.

Viorst, J. (1986). Necessary Losses. New York: Fawcett Gold Medal Books.

Wickes, F. (1927). The Inner World of Childhood. New York: Spectrum Books.

Winnicott, D. (1966). The Family and Individual Development. New York: Basic Books.


*Nancy Newton Verrier has a fuller development of the theory of the primal wound available in book form. To order her book The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child, write Nancy Verrier, 919 Village Center, Lafayette, CA 94549. The cost is $14.95 plus $2.50 mailing & handling. (CA residence add 7.25% state tax)