The Girl Behind the Door A Father's Journey Into the Mystery of Attachment

The Girl Behind The Door chronicles John Brooks? life as an adoptive father and his search for answers to his daughter Casey?s suicide. Through intensive research and interviews with experts in the U.S., Canada and Poland following her death, he learned about the devastating effects of abandonment and institutionalization on orphaned children, and the effects on behavior, socialization and self-image?attachment disorder?a condition common to orphans that can cut them off from the comfort of others. It explained everything about Casey. Many books have been written about adoption and attachment from a clinical perspective, while others have been personal stories about the ordeal of adoption and the difficulties of raising these children. The Girl Behind The Door integrates a tragic personal experience with vital information from the experts to teach other families what the Brookses learned too late.