Should supportive measures and relational variables be considered a part of psychoanalytic technique? Some empirical considerations

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 377-399

  Bush, Marshall ^a,b   Meehan, William ^a,b  

^a Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California   (United States)

^b San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

History of psychoanalysis; Interpretation; Psychoanalytic psychotherapy; Research; Therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 79955480669     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: 17458315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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