Do Certain Readings of Freud Constitute "Pathological Science"? A Comment on Boag (2006)

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-360

  McNally, Richard J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

childhood sexual abuse; recovered memories; repression

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349172409     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.11.4.359     Document Type: Article

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