Where's the Gap and What's the Difference?: The Relational View of Intersubjectivity, Multiple Selves, and Enactments

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-119

  Benjamin, Jessica ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocreatiion; Dissociation; Enactment; Intersubjectivity; Multiplicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349098018     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2010.10746042     Document Type: Article

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