Whose truth? Inevitable tensions in testimony and the search for repair

First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-63

  Thomas, Nina ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203885192     Document Type: Chapter

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