Implicit memory and early unrepressed unconscious: Their role in the therapeutic process (How the neurosciences can contribute to psychoanalysis)

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-103

  Mancia, Mauro ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Construction; Countertransference; Dreams; Dynamic unconscious; Explicit memory; Implicit memory; Neuroscience and psychoanalysis; Reconstruction; Transference; Unrepressed unconscious

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DREAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOOD; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; TRANSFERENCE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BRAIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FREUDIAN THEORY; HUMANS; INFANT; MEMORY; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PROJECTION; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; REPRESSION; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33144488957     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1516/D43P-8UPN-X576-A8V0     Document Type: Review

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