@article{ref1,
title="A psychological theory of child abuse",
journal="Psychiatric quarterly",
year="1977",
author="Smoller, B. and Lewis, A. B. Jr",
volume="49",
number="1",
pages="38-44",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2720",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}