ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the connection between the need for belonging, self-fragmentation, and conformity. The need for belonging is suggested to be a possible dynamic behind self-fragmentation in an adopted well-functioning adult patient who has gone through the trauma of separation from her birth mother as an infant. The need for belonging was resonating in the therapist, who, in the context of uprooting from his homeland, had attempted to develop new roots in the new country. The long-term therapy is briefly described. A conceptualization is offered about the differences in conformity as a result of the need for belonging among levels of self-fragmentation.
