The self as perpetual experiment: Psychodynamic comments on some aspects of contemporary urban culture

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-440

  Strenger, Carlo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0042932667     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.20.3.425     Document Type: Review

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