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Please see the talk page to discuss this --> Adopted child syndrome is the name for an alleged set of symptoms associated primarily with children who have been Adopted or separated from their birthparent/s at a very early age. It is not a formal diagnosis, but an informal assessment made by some clinicians. Advocates allege that when a birthmother is parted from her child, it causes a psychological wound that can only be healed through the reunion of mother and child. The supposed Psychological Trauma caused by the severing of the individual from his or her birthmother lies at the core of what is alleged to be peculiar to the psychology of the adopted child. The psychologist Betty Jean Lifton {Link without Title} , herself an adopted person, has written extensively on this claimed psychopathology of adopted people, primarily in ''Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience'', and ''Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness''. In "The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child", Nancy Verrier describes psychological trauma that she believes can result from separation from natural parents. Both Verrier (an adoptive parent) and Lifton are advocates for Open Adoption , believing it can mitigate against the negative effects of adopted child syndrome as experienced by those subject to Closed Adoption . Marshall D. Schechter observed in many case studies on adopted children symptoms relating to such things as Fantasies and " Acting Out " regarding the birthparents, i.e. their appearance, their names, and killing and murder, especially towards their birthmother. Adopted children may suffer symptoms of Depression , feelings of incompleteness, Phobic fear of abandonment, Anxiety , aloofness, and distancing themselves as to make close Interpersonal Relationships impossible. Adopted children, according to this theory, quite often have superficial relationships, which are dominated by a driving need to have their impulses satisfied immediately. According to Schechter, adopted boys in particular had problems with lying, stealing, and lack of integration with others. Michael Humphrey found the adopted children he studied suffered from varying degrees of parental deprivation, neglect, parental rejection, or at the opposite extreme, over-indulgence, mental or physical illness sufficient to impair the quality of parental love, and Jealousy of a sibling born before or too soon after adoption. These theories assert that many adoptees go on to develop Borderline Personality Disorder , with symptoms including impulsivity or unpredictable behaviour, unstable and intense personal relationships with idealisation, Devaluation , manipulation and inappropriate intense anger. According to the theories' supporters, adoptees may manifest uncertainty about their identity, intolerance of being alone, affective instability, physically self-damaging acts, and chronic feelings of boredom and emptiness. Abandoned Child Syndrome is a very closely related phenomenon that applies to children who were not adopted in the strict sense of the word, but felt abandoned. EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES
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