The mythologizing of psychoanalytic history: Deception and self-deception in Freud's accounts of the seduction theory episode

History of Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 3-47, 2001, Pages 329-352

  Esterson, Allen ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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ARTICLE; HISTORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0347572331     PISSN: 0957154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957154x0101204704     Document Type: Article

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