Citation

Smoller B, Lewis AB. Psychiatr. Q. 1977; 49(1): 38-44.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

870916

Abstract

This paper presents a detailed study of two patients hospitalized in a closed psychiatric unit on which the treatment program emphasized dynamically oriented individual psychotherapy and family therapy. The first patient was hospitalized following physical abuse of her four-year-old daughter, while the second was hospitalized for a postpartum depression eight weeks following the birth of her first child, a girl. Although the presenting pictures in these two patients were markedly different, the psychodynamic patterns were so similar that a detailed comparison of the two cases seems to offer useful insight into some of the psychological causes of child abuse.

Language: en