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Psychospiritual Development Of Female Adoptees Raised Within A Closed Adoption System: A Theoretical Model Within A Feminist And Jungian Perspective, April E. Topfer
Psychospiritual Development Of Female Adoptees Raised Within A Closed Adoption System: A Theoretical Model Within A Feminist And Jungian Perspective, April E. Topfer
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
This article proposes a transpersonal theoretical model suggesting that the embodiment of
the voice of the feminine is a significant catalyst for awakening the psychological and spiritual
growth and development of female adoptees. Existing Jungian and feminist theoretical
models regarding the psychological and spiritual implications for a female adoptee raised
within a closed adoption system will be discussed. The author will share her adopted voice
about her spiritual and psychological process toward finding wholeness using a hermeneutical
process of inquiry. The voices of birth mothers who relinquished their children will also be
included. Voice is then explored to be an …