Locating culture in the psychic field: Transference and countertransference as cultural products

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-75

  Bonovitz, Christopher ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Countertransference; Cross cultural; Culture; Interpersonal; Race; Relational; Transference

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944371611     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2005.10745848     Document Type: Article

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