Around the globe, millions have followed the story of Natascha Kampusch, the girl who was kidnapped at age 10 and held prisoner for eight years in a windowless basement near Vienna, Austria. They have clicked through snapshots of her dungeon posted on the Internet, speculated in chat rooms about why she had never been discovered, and marveled at her eloquence in her first television interview last week.
But in the U.S., one group is intently focused not on the physical layout of Kampusch's captivity but on the mental landscape of a girl who grew up thinking her parents had abandoned her--counselors...
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