“Mama, why don’t your feet touch the ground?": Staying with the body and the healing moment in psychoanalysis

Relational Perspectives on the Body

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 237-262

  Looker, Tamsin ^a  

^a National Institute for the Psychotherapies   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315803340-23     Document Type: Chapter

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