The ongoing struggle for psychoanalytic research: Some steps forward

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 306-314

  Busch, Fredric N ^a   Milrod, Barbara L ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficacy studies; Psychoanalytic research; Public health; Randomized controlled trials; Resistance to research

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78649682244     PISSN: 02668734     EISSN: 14749734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02668734.2010.519234     Document Type: Editorial

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