The role of the body experience in self-destruction

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 607-619

  Orbach, Israel ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Experience of the body; Parental care; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000095956     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104596014012     Document Type: Article

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