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Behavioral styles in infancy and adulthood: The work of Karen Horney and attachment theorists collaterally considered

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J., USA

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Reprinted from theJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1–7, 1983, by permission of the publisher.

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Feiring, C. Behavioral styles in infancy and adulthood: The work of Karen Horney and attachment theorists collaterally considered. Am J Psychoanal 44, 197–208 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01248299

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