The decision to abort and psychological sequelae

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1974, Pages 154-162

  Bracken, Michael B ^a   Haciiamovitcii, Mosiie ^b   Grossman, Gerald ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION; PSYCHOLOGY; THERAPY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MARRIAGE; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0015965447     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-197402000-00009     Document Type: Article

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