Filiation Erotomania in an Adopted Child: The Adolescence of an Adopted Child with Borderline Personality Disorder Complicated by Passionate Delusion

“Filiation Erotomania” in an Adopted Child: The Adolescence of an Adopted Child with Borderline Personality Disorder Complicated by Passionate Delusion

Erotomania described by De Clérambault has been the object of numerous descriptions and has many variants in its clinical expression. It can be primary or secondary, homo or heterosexual, with more or less prominent delusional conviction. We report in this article the case of an adopted adolescent where psychological disturbances were expressed through what we wish to qualify as filiation eroto...

The Religion of an Adopted Child

The Adopted Child

Mrs. Ellison, from a wide experience of social work, writes about the history of the background of adoption and of the emotional problems involved. She describes the social difficulties, especially the housing shortage, which to-day makes it hard for many to achieve the conditions of family life. Her stories from casehistories, however, make the issues appear too simple and advocate adoption as...

psychological experiences of families with adopted child

abstract aim and background: adoption is a subject with prolix antecedent in historical society and culture. child acceptation affects on partner and kinfolk relation; so the family experience recognition help nurse to have deep knowledge about family relation. method and materials: in this phenomenological qualitative study, participants were 15 family with adopted child in shahrekord, iran. t...

Counter-Surveillance Strategies Adopted By Child Pornographers

On the one side, it could be argued that ICT provide a perceived anonymity for people downloading and distributing child abusive material, also labelled child pornography. While, on the other side the technology offers powerful surveillance mechanisms to monitor these activities and thus constitutes a powerful tool for law enforcement. This article aims to explore how offenders manage the risk ...