Reflections on countertransference in psychoanalytic work with child survivors of the Shoah

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 343-368

  Gampel, Yolanda ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEATH; FEAR; HUMAN; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; STARVATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0032461504     PISSN: 00903604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.1.1998.26.3.343     Document Type: Review

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