Treatment implications of a female incest survivor's misplaced guilt

Psychoanalytic Social Work

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 53-66

  Schlesinger, Naomi J ^a  

^a The New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis   (United States)

Author keywords

Guilt; Incest; Omnipotent thinking; Trauma; Unconscious fantasy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751205052     PISSN: 15228878     EISSN: 15229033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J032v13n02_04     Document Type: Article

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