[Adoption and adopted child. Forensic and psychiatric considerations]

The authors analyse child adoption and the problems of the adopted child through briefing the juridic (legal) regulations ot this institution as well as the many medical and psychologic aspects regarding the relationships that condition its success. At the same they present the semiological aspects induced by the failure of adoption investigated under the aspect of motivation and the manifestations of certain reactive psychosyndromes of the adopted child. The authors' intention and the aim of the paper is to institutionalize a certain medical and psychological delivery according to the knowledge of the many relational implications of child adoption and--without the tendency to 'psychiatrize'--in order to promote the success conveyed to the humanistic content of this institution.