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Summary: I opened the book and found myself after 54 years.
Review: I was going through a divorce and the adoption surfaced big time. I again felt rejected. I was told I was adopted from a young age and the usual,"you were picked and you were special," never was convincing... "Someone didn't want me before someone did." I highlighted everything that fit me while reading this book plus added comments along the side. Believe me much of the book is highlighted! It is a wonderful book of which I have passed on to others. There is a bond among adoptees that no one else can understand. What surprises me is that there are no support groups for"us"! Something that dominates our lives to the deepth that it does and you struggle through for years until one day you pick up a book that says it all. I highly recommend it for those that haven't read it. I had my children read it also so hopefully they could understand their mother a little better.
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Summary: Written by someone who is angry with the process
Review: I was very disappointed to see how one-sided this book was, and I don't believe in the philosophy that every adopted child has this primal wound. Making such a broad generalization like this is very harmful to those who are learning about adoption, and for the many adoptees who do not feel this way. This book pigeonholes adoptees into being victims regardless of their situation.
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Summary: Super informative
Review: I'm an adoptee and it felt wonderful to read this book. It is so comforting to know that you are not alone, and that many of the feelings you are experiencing about your adoption are natural. The author gives super insight on all people who make up the triad. It was great for me to be exposed to what my biological and adoptive parents went through. Super book!
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Summary: A Life-Changing Read.
Review: I'm only half way through this book, and I've never found so many life revelations as in this book... and I've read a bunch on this subject.
I mean, solutions to problems you never thought were remotely connected to your adoption...
This book has positively changed my life (for the good!)
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Summary: The Must Read Book for All Who Are Touched by Adoption
Review: Nancy Verrier has successfully broken through barriers in adoption denial. I understand that many adoptees are not at all concerned about reunion. I believe that not all adoptees are in emotional turmoil over being relinquished. However, if there is any doubt, reading this book will clarify what, if any, the issues are. This is the first book I read on adoption and it prompted me to write my two books. Here's to mental health! I look forward to her next one!Kasey Hamner, M.S., psychologist, author of "Whose Child?" and "Adoption Forum"
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Summary: The Adoptee's Journey
Review: Nancy Verrier is both knowledgeable and sensitive to the issues surrounding adoption, especially to the particular issues of the adoptive mother and the adoptee. She also talks honestly about the taboo of the infant adoptee's pain from that initial separation. This book outlines in clear language and terms the process of the adoptee's journey and the attributes common among so many adoptees. As an adoptee and a new psychotherapist, this book has given me answers and explanations that I take with me in both my personal life as well as my professional life. This is the best book on the subject that I have read to date - and the number of books read is considerable.
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Summary: For those of us that have been there, she has written a gem
Review: Nancy Verrier should be congratulated, both for her courage as an adopting parent, and for her honest appraisal of herself in the context of her study. As a latish adoptee (4) with a prior history of abusive foster care, followed by abusive and manipulative adoptive parents, the book provided an excellent source of comfort and good sense. For anyone interested in the topic, but particularly those who have been in any way touched by the whole issue of adoption and adoption trauma, this book is rich source of advice and comfort, without the mawkishness often associated with similar writings. It is great to have one's rights as a human being recognised so publicly.
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Summary: Story after story mirrors some part of my life
Review: Only after years of reflection did I begin to appreciate the immense influence being adopted has had on me. I had figured a lot out by the time I read this book. Still, I had no idea how common so many of my problems (?), attitudes, and perceptions were. I can only proceed through this book slowly. Some of it is so hard to see. Story after story reflects some part of my life. It's hard to say how or to whom to recommend this. There are a lot of books I have not read that may also address these issues. However, this is the first book I've read that touches so many deep and often very painful aspects of adoption. I'm really glad I have it. The only reason I have given this book four stars is it could have been written (or edited) a little better. A very worthwhile, maybe essential, book for anyone wanting to understand being adopted.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: Primal Wound is a bible... the absolutely truth about the psychological trauma suffered by the loss a mother to adoption. Nancy pulls no punches. Everyone affected by adoption needs to read this book. Only by understanding the Primal Wound, can we understand the adoptee. Please read it!
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Summary: Does not correspond with the experiences of adoptees we know
Review: The book seems more interested in generating sales by latching onto the adoption bashing that is popular today. We know many well-adjusted adoptees ourselves, who do not feel (in any substantial, consistant degree) the angst described in the book. On the other hand, the new generation that is largely being born out of wedlock and raised by single moms are already showing severe problems.
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