How Accurately Do Introductory Psychology Textbooks Present Psychoanalytic Theory?

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-21

  Habarth, Janice ^a   Hansell, James ^b   Grove, Tyler ^b  

^a ADRIAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

Author keywords

introductory psychology; psychoanalytic; textbooks; undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355132425     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15322802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628310390912     Document Type: Article

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