ABSTRACT
Although the large majority of international adoptions are problem free, some of them involve a certain degree of suffering as much for the children as for the adoptive parents. These stumbling blocks in the relationship need to be studied taking into account the trauma experienced by each of the protagonists.
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Adoption/psychology , Child Reactive Disorders/nursing , Emigration and Immigration , Internationality , Parent-Child Relations , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/nursing , Adolescent , Age Factors , Child , Child Reactive Disorders/psychology , Child, Preschool , France , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Object Attachment , Parenting/psychology , Psychosocial Deprivation , Residence Characteristics , Resilience, Psychological , Social Identification , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/psychologyABSTRACT
In this article, the author examines the issue of dreams and the dead as an essential tool for transcultural psychotherapy and how the dreamlike vision of the dead and its interpretation constitute a turning point in transcultural therapy. Drawing from a clinical example, the author illustrates how the spatial analogy between dreams and the world of the dead has allowed a patient to reconstruct a psychological space severely disturbed by trauma endured.