title: Psychological mechanisms in child-abusing parents.
abstract: This article discusses the psychological mechanisms in child-abusing parents, with emphasis on who in the family maltreats the child, the mother-child symbiosis, disturbances in the mother-child relationship that leads to abuse and offers an insight in the etiology of this socio-medical problem of today's world.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological