The view from Irving Bieber's couch: “Heads i win, tails you lose”

Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 25-36

  Moor, Paul ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homosexuality; Irving bieber; Patient harm; Psychoanalysis; Reparative therapy; Sexual conversion therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85057701724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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