Unconscious pregnancy fantasies as an underlying dynamism in panic disorder

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 673-690

  Milrod, Barbara ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; CASE REPORT; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PANIC; PREGNANCY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; REVIEW; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 0031752955     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651980460031001     Document Type: Review

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