Trauma: The seductive hypothesis

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 381-414

  Reisner, Steven ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DELAYED PUBERTY; EGO; EXPERIENCE; FANTASY; GENITAL SYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MASTURBATION; MEMORY; NARCISSISM; NEUROSIS; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHIATRIC THEORIES AND SCHOOLS; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOM; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; HISTORY; INJURY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL STATUS; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

AIRCRAFT; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARCISSISM; NEW YORK CITY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; TERRORISM; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0142058849     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651030510021701     Document Type: Review

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