Wounded by Reality: The Collapse of the Self in Adult Onset Trauma

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-76

  Boulanger, Ghislaine ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0036332239     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2002.10745806     Document Type: Article

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