title: [About international adoption: the double strangeness of the child from abroad].
abstract: The foster child through an intercountry adoption is a "foreigner" in two ways: as a support for parental unconscious projections (as any child, including biological children) on the one hand, and because of the strangeness ethnic often involved in this framework in the other hand. After recalling the main parental representations concerning the unborn child, the author then proposes to think the approval procedure as a kind of imaginary and symbolic equivalent of the usual psychic pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pédopsychiatrie, hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, 149, rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France. bernard.golse@nck.aphp.fr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Golse
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality