Psychotherapy integration: A postmodern critique

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 140-152

  Safran, Jeremy D ^a   Messer, Stanley B ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextualism; Pluralism; Postmodernism; Psychotherapy integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000945517     PISSN: 09695893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2850.1997.tb00106.x     Document Type: Article

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