Parents of Autistic Children: Some Thoughts about Trauma, Dislocation, and Tragedy

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

Volumn 53, Issue , 1998, Pages 254-275

  Gombosi, Peter G ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b New York Freudian Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 0032248422     PISSN: 00797308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00797308.1998.11822486     Document Type: Article

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