Before the threshold: Destruction, reparation and creativity in relation to the depressive position

Journal of Child Psychotherapy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 317-334

  Edwards, Judith ^a  

^a TAVISTOCK CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borderline and deprived children; Creative impulses and play; Depressive position; Oedipal struggles; Paranoid schizoid position and creativity; Reparation of self

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CREATIVITY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GUILT; HUMAN; PARANOIA; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 31144449437     PISSN: 0075417X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00754170500370621     Document Type: Article

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