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Originally Posted by gottahavehope

Sure read those books, I did. But also remember that the writer of say, The Primal Wound is coming from an era when adoption was also a dirty little secret. Can you imagine finding out you were adopted when you were an adult? Yikes! It definitely clouds the author's perspective. And, she does write from the perspective that ALL adoptees are going to suffer from that birth trauma in some way.

The author of the Primal Wound, Nancy Verrier, is an adoptive PARENT and has a Masters in Clinical Psychology and an extensive resume covering a lot of experience as a Marriage, Child and Family Therapist and Adoption researcher. I have never heard or read that she is an adoptee, let alone a late discovery adoptee. That information does not appear anywhere on her website and is not included in her statement about herself, which discusses her childhood and adulthood. Where did you hear that she is a late discovery adoptee? The author did adopted a child in 1969 and, as I recall, her interest in adoptee grief and loss was sparked by the losses that she saw her daughter experience which were related to the loss of her first family. Her book has received two awards: Book of the Year Award from the Council for Equal Rights in Adoption in 1993, and the Emma Vilardi Humanitarian Award from the American Adoption Congress in 2003. It appears that a lot of people have high regard for this book and the author.