Finding and refinding the therapeutic alliance: On thinking and thirds

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 651-678

  Meissner, W W ^a,b  

^a Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; TRANSFERENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRUST; ARTICLE; HUMAN RELATION; PERCEPTION;

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33847156437     PISSN: 15460371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.2006.34.4.651     Document Type: Review

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