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Abstract
Green’s attentive and sophisticated reading brings to light some important themes around the participants’ personal biography, the magnification of the mother/father split in adoption discourse, and the role of fantasy. Raising compelling questions about whether the return to find one’s origins and to “belong to oneself” is in itself a fantasy, the following response attempts to address some of the limits of this work while leaving open a space for further inquiry.
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Elizabeth Hughes
Elizabeth Hughes, Ph.D., started researching adoption reunion for her master’s dissertation in Counselling and Psychotherapy at University of East London in 2010. She is currently developing this work in her role as Associate Research Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2014 under the supervision of Stephen Frosh.