Frontier Justice: A Contribution to the Theory of Child Battery

WILLIAM R. FLYNNAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.375

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Child abuse, the author believes, is often dependent upon structural and dynamic elements within the adult. He reports two cases of mothers who beat one of their children and concludes that defective defense structures of the ego are frequently responsible for child abuse; abusing parents. he finds, tend to project their anger onto their children, while denying and repressing it in themselves.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127 • Number 3 • September 1970

Pages: 375 - 379

PubMed: 5458606

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Published in print: September 1970

Published online: 1 April 2006

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WILLIAM R. FLYNN

Private practice, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif.

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Frontier Justice: A Contribution to the Theory of Child Battery

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