The two-person unconscious: Lntersubjective dialogue, enactive relational representation, and the emergence of new forms of relational organization: (1999)

Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume II: Innovation and Expansion

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 311-349

  Lyons Ruth, Karlen ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis   (United States)

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EID: 84920372602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203728062     Document Type: Chapter

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