The role of affect regulation in a case of attempted maternal-filicide suicide: Commentary on an act of despair

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 223-227

  Siegel, Judith P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional dysregulation; Projective identification; Splitting; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548942677     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-007-0129-x     Document Type: Article

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