The impact of maternal psychopathology on child–mother attachment

Archives of Women's Mental Health - Tập 12 Số 3 - Trang 123-134 - 2009
Ming Wai Wan1, Jonathan Green2
1Centre for Women’s Mental Health, Division of Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2Psychiatry Research Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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