The neurobiology of attachment to nurturing and abusive caregivers

Hastings Law Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1553-1570

  Sullivan, Regina M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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