"States of Mind with Respect to Attachment" and Change in a Psychotherapeutic Relationship: A Study of the Coherence of Transcript in a Short-Term Psychotherapy with an Adolescent

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 885-921

  Muscetta, Sergio ^a   Dazzi, Nino ^a   De Coro, Alessandra ^a   Ortu, Francesca ^a   Speranza, Anna Maria ^a  

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EID: 0033275928     PISSN: 07351690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07351699909534279     Document Type: Article

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