Show me the money: (the “problem” of) the therapist’s desire, subjectivity, and relationship to the fee

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 118-140

  Myers, Kachina ^a  

^a Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Desire; Fee; Intersubjectivity; Intimacy; Money; Mutuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549133071     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2008.10745956     Document Type: Article

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