Working with adopted women via pictures, drawings and dreams: “there is not enough”
Working with adopted women via pictures, drawings and dreams: “there is not enough”

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes a composite of eight different women who were my clients and had so much in common not only concerning personal history, but also concerning symptoms, disorders, interpersonal relationships and symbiotic relationships with the mother, and with men in their lives, that I felt it was waiting to be written as the "There is not enough syndrome." The subject in this paper I am naming "S" for subject, but she is a composite of these women, all of whom were between 25 and 32 years old at the time of therapy and were in therapy from seven months up to a year in which they all improved enough to leave therapy and live as independent successful professional young women. All eight young women were adopted from a South American country from an orphanage from immediately after birth until age 3. All of them did not have information about the birth mother. The adopting mothers ranged from age 40 at the time of adoption to age 55. Today these mothers are all either retired or close to retirement age and all are professional. During the therapy I painted pictures and drew pictures that represented the issues the young women presented and their problems, and these are presented in this paper.

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