ISBN: 0312187661
Author: Betty Jean Lifton
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (April 15, 1998)
Pages: 288
Category: Psychology
Subcategory: Medicine
Rating: 4.5
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Size Fb2: 1987 kb
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Twice Born: Memories of an Adopted daughter traces her journey and feelings. At the time she was told her birth parents were dead and she was adopted, Lifton was seven and sick from scarlet fever. The timing could not have been worse.
Twice Born: Memories of an Adopted daughter traces her journey and feelings. The experience itself caused significant problems for Lifton, and the questions about her birth parents lingered for decades.
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Bibliographic Details. Title: Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter. Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adtoped that have helped open the field, tells her own story of growing up adtoped in the closed adoption system. Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin. Publication Date: 1998. Calling Twice Born both an autobiography and a psychological journey into the past, Lifton takes the reader with her as she describes the loneliness and islolation of an adopted child cut off from the knowledge of her heritage.
Betty Jean Lifton, a writer, adoptee and adoption-reform advocate whose books - searing condemnations of the secrecy that traditionally shrouded adoption - became touchstones for adoptees throughout the world, died on Nov. 19 in Boston. She was 84 and lived in Cambridge, Mass. The cause was complications of pneumonia, her husband, the psychiatrist and author Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, said
Betty Jean Lifton, American writer. Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness ) Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible t. .
Betty Jean Lifton, American writer. Dorot Foundation grantee, 1983-1984, 85-86, Ford Foundation grantee, 1981-1982, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture grantee, 1980-1981, 82-83, New Land Foundation grantee, 1979-1980, 80-81, Astor Foundation grantee, 1973. Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness ) Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person.
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