The history and empirical status of key psychoanalytic concepts

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-19

  Luborsky, Lester ^a   Barrett, Marna S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical support; Psychoanalytic theory; Therapy outcome

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTENT VALIDITY; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DRIVE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICISM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OEDIPUS COMPLEX; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; TRANSFERENCE;

DRIVE; FORECASTING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33744467686     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.2.022305.095328     Document Type: Review

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