Adoption as a Lifelong Process: A Psychiatric Analysis

Barbara Steck, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist for children and adolescents. She trained in psychoanalysis and family therapy and worked in private practice in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1983 to 1993. At the same time, she was a consultant for adoption in the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic of the University of Lausanne. From 1994 to 2003 she worked as a senior physician in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry of the University of Basel, where she was an academic lecturer and active in teaching and research. She was the principal investigator for Switzerland of an international multisite research project, which was supported by a grant from the European Union in its 5th framework program 'Quality of Life' Children of somatically ill parents (COSIP). Since 2004 she works as a psychoanalytic therapist and supervisor in private practice. She is an author of more than 50 publications and book chapters, covering many fields of child and adolescent psychiatry such as issues in adoption, effects of trauma, somatic or psychic illnesses of parents as well as therapeutical aspects (indication for psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, psychodrama group therapy, palliative medicine). She is the author of many books.

巴巴拉·斯特克醫生（Barbara Steck, MD）是瑞士巴塞爾大學兒童與青少年精神醫學及心理治療的名譽講師。巴巴拉·斯特克醫生是一位專門從事兒童和青少年精神醫學及心理治療的醫生。她接受了精神分析和家庭治療的訓練，並於1983年至1993年在瑞士洛桑的私人診所執業。與此同時，她也擔任洛桑大學兒童與青少年精神醫學診所的收養顧問。從1994年至2003年，她在巴塞爾大學的兒童與青少年精神醫學部門擔任高級醫師，並在教學和研究方面積極參與。她是瑞士一項國際多地點研究項目的主要研究者，該項目獲得歐盟第五框架計畫「生活品質」的資助，研究主題為身體疾病父母的兒童（Children of somatically ill parents, COSIP）。自2004年以來，她在私人診所擔任精神分析治療師和督導。她是50多篇出版物和書籍章節的作者，涵蓋了兒童與青少年精神醫學的許多領域，如收養問題、創傷影響、父母的身體或心理疾病以及治療方面（心理治療的適應症、藥物治療、心理劇團體治療、緩和醫學）。她也是多本書籍的作者。