TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1977//
TI  - A psychological theory of child abuse
JO  - Psychiatric quarterly
A1  - Smoller, B.
A1  - Lewis, A. B. Jr
SP  - 38
EP  - 44
VL  - 49
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2720
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -