Reproductive loss: Barriers to psychoanalytic treatment

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 341-352

  Leon, Irvino G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREER; CHILD DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0030469830     PISSN: 00903604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.1.1996.24.2.341     Document Type: Article

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