Dissociation from the Perspective of Multiple Code Theory, Part I: Psychological Roots and Implications for Psychoanalytic Treatment

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-184

  Bucci, Wilma ^a  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Referential; Subsymbolic; Symbolic; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249727689     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2007.10745903     Document Type: Article

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