Perversion, perversity, and normality: Diagnostic and therapeutic considerations

Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 19-38

  Kernberg, Otto F ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429478239-2     Document Type: Chapter

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