A Case Illustration of Combined Treatment Using a Psychodynamic Group for Women Sexual Abuse Survivors to Address and Modify Self-Punitive Superego Trends

Group

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 289-302

  Nusbaum, Gwenn A ^a,b,c  

^a Postgraduate Center for Mental Health   (United States)

^b Marriage and Family Therapy Program   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign superego functioning; Identification with the aggressor; Splitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042226767     PISSN: 03624021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026664509942     Document Type: Article

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