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Distorted maternal mental representations and atypical behavior in a clinical sample of violence-exposed mothers and

Daniel S Schechter1, Susan W Coates, Tammy Kaminer

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA. dss11@columbia.edu

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation : the Official Journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD)
|November 6, 2008
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Keywords:
InfancyIntergenerational Transmission of TraumaMaternal BehaviorMental RepresentationsPTSD

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