The role of personality in psychotherapists' careers: Relationships between personality traits, therapeutic schools, and job satisfaction

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 365-375

  Topolinski, Sascha ^a   Hertel, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; CAREER PLANNING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUITION; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPIST ATTITUDE; SELF EMPLOYMENT; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 34047204848     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300600830736     Document Type: Article

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