Questions raised by the controversy over recovered memories of incest

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 381-395

  Lief, Harold I ^a  

^a Wayne Counseling Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPULSION; DREAM; HUMAN; INCEST; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMORY; NERVE TRACT; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; AMNESIA; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; INCEST; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRESSION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0038391308     PISSN: 00903604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.31.2.381.22119     Document Type: Review

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