Believing in Make-Believe: Looking at Theater as a Metaphor for Psychotherapy

Family Process

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-169

  MacCormack, Terry ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE; PSYCHODRAMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SYMBOLISM;

ACTING OUT; DRAMA; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHODRAMA; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0031159422     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1997.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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