From voyeur to witness: Recapturing symbolic function after massive psychic trauma

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-31

  Boulanger, Ghislaine ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DREAMING; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SYMBOLISM; THINKING;

EID: 14344249811     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.22.1.21     Document Type: Review

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