Intersubjectivity and neuroscience: Understanding enactments and their therapeutic significance within emerging paradigms

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-332

  Ginot, Efrat ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment styles; Enactments; Neuroscience; Psychoanalytic therapy; Self disclosure

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; SELF DISCLOSURE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34247577178     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.24.2.317     Document Type: Review

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