Childhood Emotional Abuse

@article{Thompson1996ChildhoodEA,
  title={Childhood Emotional Abuse},
  author={Anne E. Thompson and Carole A. Kaplan},
  journal={British Journal of Psychiatry},
  year={1996},
  volume={168},
  pages={143 - 148},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8520532}
}
The developmental theories and methods of assessment well established in psychiatry are useful approaches to the clinical assessment and further understanding of emotional abuse.
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