Taking the good with the bad: Applying klein’s work to further our understandings of cyber-cheating

Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 103-115

  Whitty, Monica T ^a   Carr, Adrian N ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyber cheating; Internet infidelity; Klein; Object relations; Splitting; Winnicott

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017559152     PISSN: 15332691     EISSN: 15332683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J398v04n02_10     Document Type: Article

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