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“And so I became an emotional stone,” said Eduardo1 to me stoically after he relayed some powerful stories from his childhood. He and his ex-wife Maria had come to therapy because their 7-year-old son, Juan, was having difficulty during weekend transition periods. Juan was emotionally reactive toward Eduardo, becoming angry or fearful in ways that seemed unpredictable, and he would often cling to his mother prior to being dropped off with his father.
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Henriques, G. (2011). The Influence Matrix. In: A New Unified Theory of Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0058-5_4
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