The analyst's implicit alpha-function, trauma and enactment in the analysis of borderline patients

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 161-180

  Smeke Carrorla, Roosevelt M ^a  

^a Group of Campinas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alpha function; Analytical technique; Borderline patient; Dream; Enactment; Non dream; Reversible perspective; Theory of thinking; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DREAM; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SYMBOLISM; THINKING; TRANSFERENCE;

EID: 40749085259     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2007.00018.x     Document Type: Article

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