Failures to link: Attacks or defects? Some questions concerning the thinkability of Oedipal and pre-Oedipal thoughts

Journal of Child Psychotherapy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 213-231

  Alvarez, Anne ^a  

^a TAVISTOCK CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Bion; Links; Oedipal; Play; Thinking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; EGO; HUMAN; OEDIPUS COMPLEX; PLAY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; THINKING;

EID: 0031659434     PISSN: 0075417X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00754179808414814     Document Type: Article

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