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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.9.1215

The authors studied the effect of group psychotherapy on the mothers of retarded individuals. They found that the mothers who underwent psychotherapy rated the retardates significantly higher in security and appearance than they did before therapy, while the mothers in the control group saw no changes in their retarded children.

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