Dissociation, repression and reality testing in the countertransference: The controversey over memory and false memory in the psychoanalytic treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-218

  Davies, Jody Messler ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0030560247     PISSN: 10481885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10481889609539115     Document Type: Article

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