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Lifton, Betty Jean was born on June 11, 1926 in Staten Island, New York, United States.
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Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child’s lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness.
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"Looks at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents . . . A provocative, comprehensive inquiry." ---Kirkus Reviews "Honest and moving." ---New York Times "Important and powerful . . . the author is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents." ---Psychology Today "A moving and powerful plea for open discourse instead of secrecy among the participants in the adoption process." ---Public Welfare, American Public Welfare Association The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton's Lost and Found advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states' policies of maintaining closed birth records. For nearly three decades the book has topped recommended reading lists for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption---including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families. This expanded and updated edition, with new material on the controversies concerning adoption, artificial insemination, and newer reproductive technologies, continues to add to the discussion on this important topic. A new preface and afterword by the author have been added, as well as a greatly expanded resources section that in addition to relevant organizations now lists useful Web sites. Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D., is a writer, psychotherapist, and leading advocate for adoption reform. Her many books include Journey of the Adopted Self and The King of Children, a New York Times Notable Book. She regularly makes appearances as a lecturer on adoption and has an adoption counseling practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
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Visit Betty Jean Lifton's website: www.bjlifton.com. A reissue of the classic 1975 memoir that Elie Wiesel called "deeply stirring . . . important and enriching." In this significant and lasting account, Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adopted, tells her own story of growing up at a time when adoptees were still in the closet. Twice Born recounts her early struggle with the loneliness and isolation of not knowing her birth parents; her identification, as a journalist in the Far East, with the orphans left behind by American soldiers in Japan and Vietnam; and the guilt she experiences over what feels like a betrayal of her adopted parents as she sets off on a forbidden quest to find her roots. With the mounting suspense of a detective novel, Twice Born explores the difficulty of searching for one's past when records are sealed, and the complexity of reuniting with a birth mother from whom one has been separated by both time and social taboos. More than a vivid and poignant memoir, Lifton has given us a story of mothering and mother-loss, attachment and bonding, secrets and lies, and the human need for origins.
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This is the first English biography of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish doctor, writer and educator, who on 6th August, 1942, sacrificed his own safety by leading two hundred orphans onto the train to Treblinka where he perished with them. Korczak was one of the first advocates of children's rights. He pioneered progressive orphanages, founded a children's newspaper and testified for children in juvenile courts. For this work the author has drawn on Korczak's writings and on interviews with orphans he raised and trained. Betty Jean Lifton is also author of "Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience", "Children of Vietnam" and "A Place Called Hiroshima".
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Lifton, Betty Jean was born on June 11, 1926 in Staten Island, New York, United States.
Bachelor in English, Barnard College, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology, Union Institute, 1992.
Producer, playwright The Jugglers Theater Troupe, New York City, 1952-1967. Free-lance journalist American and Japanese newspapers and magazines, New York City, Tokyo, 1955-1991. Lecturer on adoption issues United States, 1980-1991.
Adoption counselor New York City, 1988—2010. Lecturer on staff New School for Social Research, 1991—2010. Co-convener Seminars for Professional Advancement, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1990, 91.
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Delaware International Janusz Korczak Society, Warsaw, Poland, 1981-1988 (literature award 1989). Member advisory board The Shalom Center, Philadelphia, 1988-1991 (Brit HaDorot Peace award 1988), ALARM, Cape Coral, Florida. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, American Adoption Congress (founding member, director at large 1982-1984).
Adopted d. Oscar and Hilda (Weil) Kirschner. Married Robert Jay Lifton, March 1,1952. Children: Kenneth Jay, Natasha Karen.