Primary Femininity: Clinical Advances and Theoretical Ambiguities

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1355-1379

  Kulish, Nancy ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANXIETY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0034573795     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651000480041401     Document Type: Article

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