Predisposition to depression: The role of attachment

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-225

  Beatson, Josephine ^a   Taryan, Suzanna ^a  

^a St Vincent's Mental Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attachment; Brain development; Depression; Hypophysial pituitary adrenal activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS; INFANCY; INFANT; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIZATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0038663077     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2003.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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