The relevance of psychodynamic psychotherapy to understanding therapist-patient sexual abuse and treatment of survivors

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-331

  Yahav, Rivka ^a   Oz, Sheri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Machon Eitan ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMOTIONALITY; GUILT; HUMAN; INCEST; INTIMACY; LANGUAGE; LESBIAN; LIFE CYCLE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL FEE; PARENTHOOD; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TOUCH; TRANSFERENCE; TRUST;

ATTITUDE; COGNITION; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEX OFFENSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33746763930     PISSN: 15460371     EISSN: 15460371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.2006.34.2.303     Document Type: Review

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