Mothers and daughters from today's psychoanalytic perspective

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 601-628

  Bernstein, Paula P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OEDIPUS COMPLEX; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEXUALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPEREGO; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 9744221315     PISSN: 07351690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07351692409349106     Document Type: Review

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