The struggle between living and dying: The analytic treatment of a 90-year-old woman

Psychoanalytic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 699-715

  Laufer, Edith ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0034303557     PISSN: 00332836     EISSN: 19433301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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