The capacity to forgive: Intrapsychic and developmental perspectives

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 485-511

  Horwitz, Leonard ^a,b  

^a Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; RELIGION; THINKING;

EID: 21344457246     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651050530021401     Document Type: Article

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