Unresolved problems in the dream of Irma's Injection

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-263

  Kramer, Milton ^a,b,c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Bethesda Ctr Repro Hlth I   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DREAM; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INJECTION; LIBIDO; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PUBLICATION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032776566     PISSN: 00903604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.1.1999.27.2.253     Document Type: Article

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