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Mark Hagland: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee - Part 2

Attachment Theory in Action

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The Dialectic of Authenticity

Karen: What is the idea for your experience, specifically of not being white, but not being corean enough. I don't now, frankly, i just don't feel like you can understand this unless you have like, lots of dialogue with adoptorsins honestly. Yes, i think this is this other sort of no man's land, or no woman's whatever we want to call i is not deeply understood until you start. And one concept that i did introduce in the book, i did coin the term the dialectic of authenticity. So we adopt these do live in this strange inbetween world, right? When we encounter people from our birth culture, whether we're domestic or

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