Contemplating Silence: A Review of Understandings and Clinical Handling of Patient Silence in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Patient silence may cause the therapist serious anxiety. It is an enigmatic, over determined phenomena that has been variously defined and clinically addressed in psychoanalytic literature. This dissertation is a systematic literature review (with clinical illustrations) of psychoanalytic literature...

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Main Author: Davies, Amber (Author)
Other Authors: Appel, Stephen (Contributor)
Format: Others
Published: Auckland University of Technology, 2009-07-21T23:21:48Z.
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