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Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community
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Research Article

Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting

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Pages 51-70 | Received 10 Oct 2022, Accepted 26 Jun 2023, Published online: 19 Jul 2023

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