Rethinking homosexuality: What it teaches us about psychoanalysis

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 733-763

  Roughton, Ralph E ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY; HOMOSEXUALITY; LESBIANISM; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEXUALITY; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLICY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; FREUDIAN THEORY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC POLICY; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036616967     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651020500032001     Document Type: Review

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