Making conscious the unconscious in order to modify unconscious processing: Some mechanisms of therapeutic change

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1379-1400

  Bleichmar, Hugo ^a  

^a NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analytic technique; Interpretation; Motivational systems; Procedural memory; Therapeutic change; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NARCISSISM; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; THINKING;

EID: 11044226489     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1516/PDAK-M065-JEUJ-J7EQ     Document Type: Article

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