Intercepting the intergenerational cycle of maternal trauma and loss through mother–infant psychotherapy: A case study using attachment-derived methods.

Some mothers who have recently lost a significant attachment figure may become mentally incoherent and sporadically even enter a trancelike, dissociative state. Such states of mind have been shown to predict infant attachment disorganization. Infants born close to the time of a parental loss are at...

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Published in:Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 100 - 121
Main Authors: Belt, Ritva H., Kouvo, Anna, Flykt, Marjo, Punamäki, Raija-Leena, Haltigan, John D., Biringen, Zeynep, Tamminen, Tuula
Format: case study research Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Jan2013
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