Janine de Peyer
Sequestered Selves: Discussion of Adoption Roundtable
(Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 2013)

Commentary on adoption roundtable discussion held at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, examining the ‘double-edged sword’ of dissociation, and the role it plays by both facilitating and inhibiting the parent-child bond in adoptive families.

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Xttci52j9GXWYVduHBn4/full

Janine de Peyer, LCSW, is on the Faculty and a Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, NY, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, NY. She is Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives where she has also published. Trained in EMDR, Janine’s interests include trauma, dissociation, infertility/adoption, unconscious communication, and the location and dislocation of aspects of self. She has recently completed an article entitled, “Raising the Curtain: Unconscious Communication and the Uncanny.” Janine is in private practice in Manhattan, New York.