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Attachment: its meaning and consequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Michael Rutter
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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