Struggles with god: Transference and religious countertransference in the treatment of a trauma survivor

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 165-174

  Peteet, John R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; DULOXETINE; FLUOXETINE; LITHIUM; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD ABUSE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; RELIGION; SLEEP DISORDER; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SURVIVOR; TRANSFERENCE; TRUST; VERBAL HOSTILITY;

CATHOLICISM; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); TRUST;

EID: 65749097420     PISSN: 15460371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.2009.37.1.165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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