Repetition compulsion revisited: Implications for technique

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-53

  Inderbitzin, Lawrence B ^a   Levy, Steven T ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COMPULSION; CONFLICT; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0031933612     PISSN: 00332828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00332828.1998.12006030     Document Type: Review

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