The psychodramatical "social atom method": Dialogical self in dialectical action

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-212

  Verhofstadt Denève, Leni M F ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 0037399350     PISSN: 10720537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10720530390117939     Document Type: Article

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