Special Section: Pruning the Tree of Knowledge

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 817-828

  Katzko, Michael W ^a  

^a Netherlands Psychoanalytic Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

disorganization in psychology; justification; metaphysics; problems for science; structure of experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649227243     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354308097259     Document Type: Article

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