'Mother's little helper': The crisis of psychoanalysis and the Miltown resolution

Gender and History

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 228-255

  Metzl, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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DRUG PRESCRIBING; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MENTAL HEALTH; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 0043127372     PISSN: 09535233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.00300     Document Type: Article

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