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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
8:30 p.m.
Adoption Fantasies:
A Psychoanalytic Understanding of
Edward Albee’s
The Play About the Baby
Roslyn Goldner, LCSW
Muriel Morris, MD
In this paper the authors focus on the way Edward Albee dramatized universal fantasies about conception and birth as they particularly relate to an adopted child’s experiences and memories concerning the time of the adoption.
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