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The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Book Review September 23, 2002

Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders

J Clin Psychiatry 2002;63(9):846

Article Abstract

From our regular book review column.

This is a serious book about a serious subject. Jon Allen is a senior staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas City, Mo., and director of its Child and Family Center. What he has written is a comprehensive, scholarly, and meticulous consideration of psychopathology resulting from traumatic relationships.

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