Keeping your eye on the process: Body image, older women, and countertransference

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 200-214

  Altschuler, Joanne ^a   Katz, Anne D ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Countertransference; Older women

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AGORAPHOBIA; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BODY IMAGE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCEST; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHAME; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AGORAPHOBIA; ANGER; BEREAVEMENT; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GRIEF; HUMANS; INCEST; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SHAME; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 77951164976     PISSN: 01634372     EISSN: 15404048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01634370903507589     Document Type: Article

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