Psychospiritual Development of Female Adoptees Raised Within a Closed Adoption System: A Theoretical Model Within a Feminist and Jungian Perspective

Authors

April E. Topfer, The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

DOI

10.24972/ijts.2010.29.2.87

Abstract

This article proposes a transpersonal theoretical model suggesting that the embodiment of

the voice of the feminine is a significant catalyst for awakening the psychological and spiritual

growth and development of female adoptees. Existing Jungian and feminist theoretical

models regarding the psychological and spiritual implications for a female adoptee raised

within a closed adoption system will be discussed. The author will share her adopted voice

about her spiritual and psychological process toward finding wholeness using a hermeneutical

process of inquiry. The voices of birth mothers who relinquished their children will also be

included. Voice is then explored to be an essential component of the embodied feminine,

in turn becoming a catalyst of psychospiritual growth and developmental awakening for

female adoptees.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Topfer, A. E. (2010). Topfer, A. E. (2010). Psychospiritual development of female adoptees raised within a closed adoption system: A theoretical model within a feminist and Jungian perspective. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 29(2), 87–102.. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 29 (2). https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2010.29.2.87