When the Analyst Writes a Memoir: Clinical Implications of Biographic Disclosure

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 367-392

  Richman, Sophia ^a  

^a FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biographic; Hidden; Memoir; Self disclosure; Subjectivity; Transference; Vulnerable

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749641313     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2006.10747111     Document Type: Article

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