Left without a word: Learning rhythms, rhymes, and reasons in adoption

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-24

  Pivnick, Billie A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 77954914713     PISSN: 07351690     EISSN: 19409133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07351690903200101     Document Type: Article

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