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Ghosts in The Nursery: How the Past Affects the Present

The title of the 1975 paper “Ghosts in the Nursery” by Fraiberg, Adelson and Shapiro haunted me as I became a mother. Why should I be haunted? I’m a therapist, I know the past affects the present. Yet, how chilling….to vividly imagine that some nurseries are riddled with quite very many ghosts. The ghosts thatContinue reading “Ghosts in The Nursery: How the Past Affects the Present”