Hearing the faith in time: Countertransference and religious metaphor in an oncology patient's psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 971-1021

  Spero, Moshe Halevi ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LITERATURE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION; REVIEW; TIME;

EID: 4944227443     PISSN: 00332828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2004.tb00190.x     Document Type: Review

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