"Nothing could be further from the truth": The role of lack in the analytic process

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 397-422

  Wilson, Mitchell ^a,b  

^a Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 33745039511     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651060540022401     Document Type: Article

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