"What is genuine maternal love?": Clinical considerations and technique in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

Volumn 60, Issue , 2005, Pages 47-73

  Baradon, Tessa ^a,b,c  

^a ANNA FREUD CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Association of Child Psychotherapists

^c Association of Child Psychoanalysis

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EID: 33644673532     PISSN: 00797308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2005.11800746     Document Type: Review

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