num_pages: 320
description: Fusing relationship with self reflection, Robert Andersen and Rhonda Tucker hope to generate sufficient intensity to illuminate to illuminate the extent adoption colors everyday experience. Written by adoptees for adoptees, this book attempts to view the consequences of relinquishment unrefracted through platitudes. The view from their bridge highlights difficulties in the adoptive experience and suggests avenues for resolution. The authors call it as they lived it and view adoption in a broader context than search and reunion.About The Authors:Robert Andersen, M.D. obtained his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and did his psychiatry residency at St. Louis University. He practices psychiatry at the Veteran's Hospital in St. Louis, working with combat related post-traumatic stress disorder. He is the author of Second Choice: Growing Up Adopted, as well as several articles on topics ranging from prisoners of war to adoption. Robert was sold through the black market for $250 at age four days.Rhonda Tucker earned two associates of arts degrees, one in early childhood education and one in arts and science with an emphasis on psychology. She teaches elementary and junior high school art in Seattle, Washiington. Placed for adoption in Spokane, Washington at age three months, she grew up in the Pacific Northwest. Rhonda found her birth family eight years ago, also in Seattle. A poet all her life, this is her first published work.
title: A Bridge Less Traveled, Twice Visited
titlecomplete: A Bridge Less Traveled, Twice Visited
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Badger Hill Press