"Of course all relationships are unique": How co-creative processes generate unique mother-infant and patient-therapist relationships and change other relationships

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 473-491

  Tronick, Edward Z ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CREATIVITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANCY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; REVIEW;

EID: 0042265577     PISSN: 07351690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07351692309349044     Document Type: Review

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