Technical challenges faced by the immigrant psychoanalyst

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-43

  Akhtar, Salman ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LANGUAGE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 33644840645     PISSN: 00332828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2006.tb00031.x     Document Type: Review

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