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June 2024

  • MCAT, GradDipArtTherapy, LLB, AThR

    Anna is a culturally sensitive creative arts therapist working with CALD and non-CALD families in AOD. She uses the creative arts and play therapeutically with parents/caregivers and their children to heal their ruptured attachment relationships. This dyadic work is with children who have been reunified with their biological parents, who are currently in foster care and those who have experienced trauma in their family of origin. Anna is a domestic transracial adoptee of Chinese Vietnamese descent with an American Indonesian upbringing in Australia. She has an interest in attachment theories, family systems, cultural identities and trauma.

This work is published in JoCAT and is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.

  • Wang, Y. (Host). (2024, June). Navigating between longing and loss as a transracial adoptee: Anna Lam Sasson in conversation with Ying Wang [Audio podcast]. JoCAT Podcasts. JoCAT. https://www.jocat-online.org/p-24-lamsasson-wang

Anna Lam Sasson

Navigating between longing and loss as a transracial adoptee: Anna Lam Sasson in conversation with Ying Wang

In this podcast Ying Wang speaks with Anna Lam Sasson about her article ‘Cultural longing and loss: An arts-based inquiry into the experience of cultural identity for adult transracial adoptees (TRAs)’. The article is focused on cultural-identity experiences of TRA participants from a co-autoethnographic arts-based research (ABR) project in which Anna was a TRA co-researcher and participant. This research was completed as part of her coursework for the Master of Creative Arts Therapies program at Murdoch University in Western Australia.

Anna Lam Sasson, The pain endured in being erased, and trying to find myself again, 2021, collage and mixed media, 297 × 420mm.

You can read the article here:

Cultural longing and loss: An arts-based inquiry into the experience of cultural identity for adult transracial adoptees (TRAs) / Anna Lam Sasson

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