The Role of Awe in Experiential Personal Construct Psychology

Frightful Stages: From the Primitive to the Therapeutic

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 149-162

  Leitner, L M ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anger; contact; distress; emptiness; fear; intimacy; meaningfulness; Relationships; resistances; reverence; sexuality; transference; validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038794145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315809199-11     Document Type: Chapter

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