Scenes that write themselves: Improvisational moments in relational psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-99

  Ringstrom, Philip A ^a  

^a Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis   (United States)

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EID: 34447280835     PISSN: 10481885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10481880701301303     Document Type: Review

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