title: Adoption and disturbed narcissism: a case illustration of a latency boy.
abstract: The analysis of a latency-age boy, adopted at birth, is presented. Clinical material, particularly having to do with family romance fantasies created by the patient to account for why the biological parents "got rid of" him, are focused upon. The relation between being adopted and disturbed narcissism is considered.
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption; D000786:Anger; D002648:Child; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept