Product Description

In this unique book, the reader is provided with a description of the unfolding of the adoptee's personality from birth, detailing each developmental milestone along the way, followed by different methods of healing the adoptee's wounds, including inner child work, visualizations, healing affirmations, and anger management. Every chapter includes a Myths and Realities of adoption section, a summary of the chapter and exercises to do on one's own.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #389753 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 215 pages

Review
"...this book should be required reading by anyone serious about attempting to resolve emotional conflicts in adoption." -- Robert Andersen, M.D. and Rhonda Tucker, authors of The Bridge Less Traveled

"Joe Soll teaches us how to face our deepest and most painful feelings - and survive..." -- Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother

"This comprehensive and thoughtful book, offers a positive approach to help members of the adoption triad heal lifelong wounds." -- Annette Baran, LCSW, co-author of The Adoption Triangle and Lethal Secrets

"...this book should be required reading by anyone serious about attempting to resolve emotional conflicts in adoption." -- Robert Andersen, M.D. and Rhonda Tucker, authors of The Bridge Less Traveled

"Joe Soll teaches us how to face our deepest and most painful feelings - and survive..." -- Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother

"This comprehensive and thoughtful book, offers a positive approach to help members of the adoption triad heal lifelong wounds." -- Annette Baran, LCSW, co-author of The Adoption Triangle and Lethal Secrets

Adoption Healing presents a clear, comprehensive, and theoretically consistent approach to address the issue of healing in adoption... this book should be required reading by anyone serious about attempting to resolve emotional conflicts in adoption." -- Robert Andersen, M.D. and Rhonda Tucker, authors of The Bridge Less Traveled

As an author, teacher, and therapist, Joe Soll has brought the essence of adoption, its inherent pain to pen. His words offer counsel for the tragic separation that has occurred in the sacred union of mother and child. -- Jane Guttman, DC, author of

In his gentle way, and with the expertise from years of leading support groups, Joe Soll teaches us how to face our deepest and most painful feelings - and survive... Joe's caring heart is with us every step of the way. -- Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother

This comprehensive and thoughtful book, offers a positive approach to help members of the adoption triad heal lifelong wounds. It is a welcome addition to the growing library written by experienced individuals who occupy both personal and professional roles in this world. --Annette Baran, LCSW, co-author of The Adoption Triangle and Lethal Secrets

Adoption Healing presents a clear, comprehensive, and theoretically consistent approach to address the issue of healing in adoption... this book should be required reading by anyone serious about attempting to resolve emotional conflicts in adoption." -- Robert Andersen, M.D. and Rhonda Tucker, authors of The Bridge Less Traveled

As an author, teacher, and therapist, Joe Soll has brought the essence of adoption, its inherent pain to pen. His words offer counsel for the tragic separation that has occurred in the sacred union of mother and child. -- Jane Guttman, DC, author of

In his gentle way, and with the expertise from years of leading support groups, Joe Soll teaches us how to face our deepest and most painful feelings - and survive... Joe's caring heart is with us every step of the way. -- Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother

This comprehensive and thoughtful book, offers a positive approach to help members of the adoption triad heal lifelong wounds. It is a welcome addition to the growing library written by experienced individuals who occupy both personal and professional roles in this world. -- Annette Baran, LCSW, co-author of The Adoption Triangle and Lethal Secrets

From the Author
I have written this book as an adoptee talking from the heart to his millions of adopted "brothers and sisters", as a son to his millions of birthparents and adoptive parents and as a colleague to his fellow mental health professionals in the hope of shedding new light on this most confusing subject.

About the Author
After writing Adoption Healing... a path to recovery, Joe Soll co-authored Adoption Healing for Mothers and also co-authored Evil Exchange. He is a psychotherapist, lecturer and a former adjunct professor of social work at Fordham University Graduate School, internationally recognized as an expert in adoption related issues. He is director and co-founder of Adoption Crossroads in New York City, a non-profit adoption search and support organization.

The director and founder of the Adoption Counseling Center in New York City, Mr. Soll is also an pproved adoption counselor for the United Kingdom Department of Health, and a former member of Matilda Cuomo's 1993 Adoption Task Force. He is a fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the American Association of Grief Counselors and a member of the Council on Social Work Education.

Since 1989, Mr. Soll has organized and coordinated seven international mental health conferences on adoption, has been an expert witness in court about adoption related issues and has lectured widely at adoption agencies, social work schools, mental health facilities and mental health conferences in the U.S. and Canada.

Joe Soll has appeared on Radio and Television over 300 times, given over 150 lectures on adoption related issues and has been featured or quoted in over five dozen newspapers, books and magazines. He was portrayed as a therapist in the NBC Made-For-TV movie The Other Mother and recently played himself in the HBO Special Reno Finds Her Mom.

Customer Reviews

A must read for all involved in adoption!!!
This book should be considered a must read for all of those touched by adoption. Joe Soll's wisdom and guidance will truly guide the adoptee in a journey of self exploration that will provide insight and healing of the issues encountered throughout adoption. The readings, activities and knowledge this book offers compares with no other out there.... except for his other book, Adoption healing for mothers. (also, not to be missed!!! )

The Voice of Adoptees
I am so thankful that this books exists. I'm an adoptee, and I grew up with adoptive parents who made the most soul-harming decisions. No one in my family ever understood how I felt, and in turn I had no one to talk with or express my entangled feelings. Joe really translates all on an adoptees feelings and I feel for the first time ever someone REALLY gets it! It is a useful tool in my adoption healing!

Adoption Healing... a path to healing and living
The author has brought the myths of adoption into the light. Exposing them so we have a better understanding of adoption and why there is a need for healing. He has given the memebers of the triad understanding on all sides. The exercises are easy to understand and do work. The book is a path to recovery and to living again. Thank you