Mental Representation, Severe Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 113-159

  Blatt, Sidney J ^a   Auerbach, John S ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035656010     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651010490010201     Document Type: Article

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