The Relational turn, the therapeutic alliance, and psychotherapy research: Strange bedfellows or postmodern marriage?

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 449-475

  Safran, Jeremy D ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 0142231530     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2003.10747215     Document Type: Article

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