num_pages: 300
description: A Marin County California father embarks on a journey to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter Casey to take her life. He travels back to her abandonment at birth and adoption from a Polish orphanage at fourteen months through her happy childhood and her turbulent adolescence searching for answers. In most respects Casey was a perfectly normal girl  beautiful smart and popular accepted at an elite college. But she also had troubling behaviors that no one understood including mental health professionals. His search leads to a condition known as attachment disorder an affliction common among children who have been abandoned neglected or abused.It explained everything.
language: English
title: The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Journey Into the Mystery of Attachment
publisher: I Heart Casey Books