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Developmental history and object relations in psychiatrically disturbed adolescent girls

D Westen1, P Ludolph, M J Block

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1346.

The American Journal of Psychiatry
|August 1, 1990
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