Understanding and treating infertility: Psychoanalytic considerations

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-75

  Leon, Irving G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; NARCISSISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NARCISSISM; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 77949851015     PISSN: 15460371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.2010.38.1.47     Document Type: Article

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