Refinding the Good Old Object: Beyond the Good Analyst/Bad Parent

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-287

  Goldberg, Joan ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Exciting object; Fairbairn; Good object; Pathologizing; Refinding

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249698608     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2007.10745908     Document Type: Article

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