Betty Jean Lifton (1926–2010)
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Betty Jean Lifton (1926-2010) was a writer and counseling psychologist. She was a leading advocate of adoption reform, and her widely read adoption trilogy includes Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness. She was also author of Return to Hiroshima and Children of Vietnam. She was vis mere married to the psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton. vis mindre
Værker af Betty Jean Lifton
Taka-chan and I: A Dog's Journey to Japan by Runcible (New York Review Books Children's Collection) (1967) 7 eksemplarer
The silver crane 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1975 — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Lifton, Betty Jean
- Andre navne
- Lifton, B. J.
- Fødselsdato
- 1926-06-11
- Dødsdag
- 2010-11-19
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Bopæl
- Staten Island, New York, USA (birth)
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan
Hong Kong
New Haven, Connecticut, USA (vis alle 9)
New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Barnard College (BA ∙ English literature|1948)
Union Institute (PhD|Counseling Psychology|199?) - Erhverv
- therapist (adoption)
psychologist
adoption reform activist
biographer
children's book author
memoirist - Relationer
- Lifton, Robert Jay (husband)
- Kort biografi
- Betty Jean Lifton was born Blanche Rosenblatt in New York City to an unmarried couple who gave her up for adoption. She was raised in Cincinnati by adoptive parents. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Barnard College in 1948, and decades later earned a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the Union Institute. In 1952, she married Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist who became an influential author, with whom she had two children. While living with him in Japan in the early 1960s, she developed a passion for Japanese culture and folklore, and wrote many children’s books, including Kap the Kappa, Joji and the Dragon, The Rice-cake Rabbit, and The Dwarf Pine Tree. After the family returned to the USA, she spent many years tracing her birth mother, which sparked a second career as a pioneering advocate of open adoption and adoption reform. She lectured widely on adoption and wrote a trilogy of nonfiction books on the subject, including her own memoir, Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (1975). She also worked as a therapist, specializing in adoptees and their families.
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I really like this book because it dealt with the reality of kids wanting to know their OWN story. I'm still frustrated I'm having trouble finding Easy books about older kids being adopted. There are going to be little kids, who are maybe in foster care, hoping for their forever family. I haven't found any books for those kids. I'll keep looking. Aside from that, this was a great book about adoption. It addressed birth parents. It might not be a good book for a family that the birth parents don't want any contact. But if there was an openness to the adoption, this could be a good book to start that conversation.
Reading Level: 2.7 Interest Level: Preschool… (mere)
Reading Level: 2.7 Interest Level: Preschool… (mere)
This book provided me an excellent education on what adoption is like - from the adoptee's perspective. Being a birth father who has recently reunited with my biological daughter, the info in this book revealed insights to me that I had never before considered; and, it has given me new ideas on things I can discuss with my daughter in the future. My heart's desire is her wholeness, and I hope that I can be instrumental in bringing her to that point. I strongly recommend Journey of the Adopted Self for anyone who is a birth parent, an adoptive parent, and of course, an adoptee. Incidentally, I was saddened to learn that Betty Jean Lifton had died about two years ago (in late 2010). I would love to have gotten in touch with her.… (mere)
I found this biography very well-written, detailed and moving. Janusz Korczak is barely known in the West today, and those who have heard of him usually only know of the manner of his death: he followed the children in his orphanage to Treblinka rather than abandon them and save his own life. But there is a lot more to Korczak than the way he died, as this book shows. You really get a sense of the "whole man," and the times in which he lived. He was a brilliant doctor, pedagogue, children's writer and humanitarian, and he was also very eccentric, prickly with most adults, and had a highly developed sense of humor. The world needs more people like Korczak, and more biographies like this one.… (mere)
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- Popularitet
- #47,121
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- 4.1
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- ISBN
- 51
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- 4
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- 1
Władysław Szpilman schreibt als Augenzeuge des Abtransports die Szene in seinen Memoiren: „Bestimmt hat der ‚Alte Doktor‘ noch in der Gaskammer, als das Zyklon schon die kindlichen Kehlen würgte und in den Herzen der Waisen Angst an die Stelle von Freude und Hoffnung trat, mit letzter Anstrengung geflüstert: ‚Nichts, das ist nichts, Kinder‘ um wenigstens seinen kleinen Zöglingen den Schrecken des Übergangs vom Leben in den Tod zu ersparen.“
Das Buch beschreibt aber vor allem Korczaks Leben, seine Werke und Gedanken, aus denen „die Rechte der Kinder“ bekannt sind und hervorstechen. Aber natürlich kennen wir auch seine König-Macius-Erzählung (bzw. früher König Hänschen), die zu den Klassikern der Kinderliteratur zählt und in den 2000ern als Zeichentrickserie im Kika lief.
Das Buch zeigt aber auch Korzcaks Widersprüchlichkeit und Zerrissenheit - niemals gegenüber den Kindern- aber gegen sich selbst, die Umstände seines Lebens in dem er vom Polen zum Juden wurde.
Es ist ein gutes Buch, wie es einen guten Stoff erzählt.… (mere)