Angels in the Nursery: The Intergenerational Transmission of Benevolent Parental Influences

Fraiberg and her colleagues (1975) introduced the metaphor "ghosts in the nursery" to describe the ways in which parents, by reenacting with their small children scenes from the parents’ own unremembered early relational experiences of helplessness and fear, transmit child maltreatment.

Infant Mental Health Journal, Vol. 26(6), 504-520 (2005
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