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Attachment Style, Traumatic Bonding, and Developing Relational Capacities in a Long-Term Trauma Group for Women

Eleanor A. SaundersDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at The Cambridge Hospital
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Jill A. EdelsonDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital
Pages 465-485 | Published online: 20 Oct 2015

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