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• 1.   'Forty Seven, Today You are Nine': Systematic Abuse in Irish Childcare Institutions

  This article discusses Bion's Affect Theory, in relation to the recent disclosure of systematic abuse in State-funded childcare institutions in Ireland

  

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  This paper discusses Bion's Affect Theory, in relation to the recent disclosure of systematic abuse in State-funded childcare institutions in Ireland. Exploring Meltzer's development of Bion's early work the paper describes the wider cultural and historical circumstances in which children and carers came to enter the physically and emotionally claustrophobic environment of the more...

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  Republic of Ireland

  Group Analysis, Vol: 39 Page: 25-35 2006
  Paul Shield

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• 2.   War in the nursery, 1798: the persecuting breast and the melancholy babe in Maria Edgeworth's ennui

  This article discusses "War in the nursery, 1798: the persecuting breast and the melancholy babe in Maria Edgeworth's ennui"

  

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  Republic of Ireland

  Womens Stud, Vol: 31 Page: 349-97 2002
  B. Blackwell

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• 3.   When trauma has no words

  Book Review: When trauma has no words

  

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  Reviews the book, The unsayable: The hidden language of trauma by Annie Rogers (see record 2006-09985-000). Rogers has crafted a useful book for clinicians to assist in the treatment of trauma. Through therapy case studies, interviews with traumatized girls in Ireland, interviews with girls in a therapeutic school, and her own experiences, Rogers examines the way trauma seeps out and more...

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  Republic of Ireland

  Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, Vol: 8 Page: 115-119 2007
  Cindy B. Veldhuis

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