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Scientific Aspects of Psychoanalysis

Is Testing Psychoanalytic Hypotheses in the Psychoanalytic Situation Really Impossible?

Marshall Edelson
, M.D., Ph.D.
Pages 61-109 | Published online: 07 Feb 2017

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