Pandora meets the NICU parent or whither hope?

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-147

  Steinberg, Zina ^a,b  

^a Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research ^*  (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

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