When baby makes three or four or more: Attachment, individuation, and identity in assisted-conception families

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

Volumn 63, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-23

  Ehrensaft, Diane ^a  

^a Psychoanalytic Institute of Northen California   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFANT; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; NEWBORN; OBJECT RELATION; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTITY CRISIS; INDIVIDUATION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84903336905     PISSN: 00797308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2008.11800797     Document Type: Article

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