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Relationships, Development, and Psychopathology

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Interpersonal relationships are pivotal for studying psychopathology in general and developmental psychopathology in particular. This is so at multiple levels of analysis, from defining psychopathology, to describing preconditions and contexts, and to understanding its origins and nature.

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Sroufe, L.A., Duggal, S., Weinfield, N., Carlson, E. (2000). Relationships, Development, and Psychopathology. In: Sameroff, A.J., Lewis, M., Miller, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4163-9_5

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