The Surface and the Depths: The metaphor of depth in psychoanalysis and the ways in which it can mislead

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-26

  Wachtel, Paul L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0037236552     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2003.10747197     Document Type: Article

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