The relationship of patients' pretreatment representations of mother to early treatment representations of their therapist

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 357-372

  Honig, Margery Singer ^a,b   Farber, Barry A ^b   Geller, Jesse D ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031418833     PISSN: 00903604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.1.1997.25.3.357     Document Type: Article

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