Female genital anxieties: Views from the nursery and the couch

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 276-294

  Olesker, Wendy ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; CASTRATION; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUALITY;

EID: 0031919920     PISSN: 00332828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21674086.1998.11927560     Document Type: Review

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