Empirical evidence for a compensatory relationship between dream content and repression

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 154-163

  Bell, Andrew J ^a   Cook, Harold ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DREAM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THINKING;

EID: 0032456620     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.15.1.154     Document Type: Review

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