The therapist as a person facing death: The hardest of external realities and therapeutic action

International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1131-1150

  Feinsilver, David B ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEOPLASMS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0032432376     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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