The elemental dialogue between mother and infant [is] the dialogue that insures our humanity ... All later human love and dialogue is a striving to reconcile our longings [which] we spend most of our adult life solving and resolving
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Smith, M.O., Smith-Blackmer, D. The mother-daughter relationship: A dialogue continued. Clin Soc Work J 9, 57–68 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757094
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