Intimate Communications: The Values and Boundaries of Touch in the Psychoanalytic Setting

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 108-123

  Ruderman, Ellen G ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0034385184     PISSN: 07351690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07351692009348877     Document Type: Article

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