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Psychoanalytic Inquiry
A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals
Volume 4, 1984 - Issue 3: Commentaries on Merton Gill's Analysis of Transference
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The past unconscious, the present unconscious, and interpretation of the transference

Joseph Sandler Ph.D., M.D. Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sigmund Freud Center for Study and Research in Psychoanalysis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Training and supervising analysts in the British Psycho‐Analytical Society; Israel Institute of Psychoanalysis; 35 Circus Road, London, NW8 9JG, England
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Anne‐Marie Sandler Lic. es Sc. Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology and Senior Consultant in the Mental Health Clinic for Children and Adolescents of Ezrath Nashim, (Hadassah Medical School), Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Training and supervising analysts in the British Psycho‐Analytical Society; Israel Institute of Psychoanalysis
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