Integrating Male and Female Elements in a Woman's gEnder Identity

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1335-1360

  Balsam, Rosemary ^a  

^a Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOANALYSIS;

FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION;

EID: 0035469156     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651010490040401     Document Type: Article

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