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

A Marin County, California father embarks on a journey to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter, Casey, to take her life. He travels back to her abandonment at birth and adoption from a Polish orphanage at fourteen months, through her happy childhood and her turbulent adolescence, searching for answers. In most respects, Casey was a perfectly normal girl – beautiful, smart and popular, accepted at an elite college. But she also had troubling behaviors that no one understood, including mental health professionals. 

His search leads to a condition known as attachment disorder, an affliction common among children who have been abandoned, neglected or abused. It explained everything.