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Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College, London, London WC1E 6BT, UK The Anna Freud Centre, London, UK
Address for correspondence: Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Voice: 44-20-7679-1943; fax: 44-20-7916-8502. p.fonagy{at}ucl.ac.uk
This article considers the development of violence with particular reference to family factors in violence such as the quality of the parent-child relationship. In taking a developmental approach to violence, a link is established between the maltreatment of children in an attachment context and the risk of violence via the child's capacity to envision mental states in the other. Evidence from epidemiology and neuroscience is brought to bear on this link. Finally, some studies of prevention of violence that are likely to enhance attachment and mentalizing are considered.
Key Words: violence • child • adolescent • developmental approach • trauma • maltreatment • prevention • mentalization • attachment This article has been cited by other articles:
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