What happens before and after acute enactments? An exercise in clinical validation and the broadening of hypotheses

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-80

  Cassorla, Roosevelt M S ^a  

^a NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute enactment; Agieren; Alpha function; Chronic enactment; Countertransference; Dreams; Dreams for two; Enactment; Non dreams for two; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856772373     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: 17458315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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