What if socrates had been a woman?: The therapist’s use of acknowledgment tokens (mm-hm, yeah, sure, right…) as a nonreflective means of intersubjective involvement

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 367-410

  Gerhardt, Julie ^a   Beyerle, Sandra ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 0031477366     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.1997.10746995     Document Type: Article

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