The primary process and the unconscious: Experimental evidence supporting two psychoanalytic presuppositions

International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 553-569

  Brakel, Linda A W ^a   Kleinsorge, Shasha ^a   Snodgrass, Michael ^a   Shevrin, Howard ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0033910763     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1516/0020757001599951     Document Type: Article

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