Beyond orality: Toward an object relations/interactionist reconceptualization of the etiology and dynamics of dependency

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-203

  Bornstein, Robert F ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOCIALIZATION; WEANING;

EID: 0030013175     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0079647     Document Type: Review

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