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Summary: This is THE book
Review: This is a must read for adoptees and anyone trying to understand us. Nancy Verrier discusses why we are the way we are and how we got here. We make up our own little society, and this needs to be acknowledged. We don't fit in with other traumas or other mental health situations. We are in a class of our own. Read this book to find out why.
I also recommend Nancy's new book, Coming Home to Self.
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Summary: Mandatory Reading
Review: This should be mandatory reading for anyone who: is adopted, is or has adopted a child, works with children, counsels children and adults.The most valuable book I have ever read.
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Summary: An Adopted Father Review
Review: Three words for this book-excellent,excellent and excellent. This book put all the pieces together for us and has help dramatically to understand and improve our relationship with our adopted son. To date, we have bought 11 books to give to friends and health care professionals. This book has saved our mental health and has changed our lives.
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Summary: Long Overdue ... A Validating Book Speaks the Painful Truth
Review: Truth and pain are often hard to accept and oh so easy to deny. Nancy Verrier acknowledges and adddresses the TRUTH and REALITY of adoption. Truth and reality have been grossly denied and discounted in the closed adoption system and in our society. If you aren't ready to deal with truth and reality, then this book will not be beneficial. But for those who are...
Get ready to HEAL!... Pain and grieving leads to healing. How fortunate I (an adoptee) am to have found this validating book. It has brought me to an unbelievable place of understanding. I give this book the highest recommendation to all members of the adoption triad.
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Summary: Definitely take with a grain (or a ton) of salt
Review: Verrier focuses on the biological tie between child and birthmother to a positively mystical extent, making some very dubious and scientifically-unsupported claims in the process. It's certainly vital to raise people's awareness that adoption is never problem-free, and that it's impossible (as well as unethical) to try to cut a child off from their past, but to do so through a glorification of some primal pre-natal "bonding" is unhelpful to say the least. I found the book woolly, annoying, and at times positively deranged.
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Summary: Truth
Review: What Nancy Verrier has written is the truth. This is the most courageous, realistic,helpful, and mature book written about the experience of adoption. She has worked to describe not what members of the adoption triad should experience, but what they do experience. It is a great achievement, a necessary book for anyone touched by adoption.
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Summary: This Book Got Me All "Wound" Up!
Review: Whether you work in a library or an IRL bookstore, it's difficult to find good books about the early days of clock winding. Sadly, despite completely unscientific research by the author, "The Primal Wound" (it rhymes with "round") was unsatisfactory in almost every way imaginable. Sure, you get over 200 pages for your money, but there are cheaper sources of paper for bathroom uses than a new book. More illustrations of early clocks would have been quite welcome, but instead the book is just a bunch of worthless words that seem to have been thrown together randomly.
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