Psychoanalysis on the couch: Can neuroscience provide the answers?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 594-599

  Mechelli, Andrea ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCERTAINTY;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; RESEARCH;

EID: 77958488606     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.07.042     Document Type: Article

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