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Discussion of "Unmentalized aspects of panic and anxiety disorders"

Michael Robbins1

  • 1Michael Robbins, M.D., is a psychoanalyst, formerly Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and UCSF, author of numerous articles including "The Successful Psychotherapy of a Schizophrenic Woman," published in Psychodynamic Psychiatry (2012) and three books: Experiences of Schizophrenia (1993), Conceiving of Personality (1996), and The Primordial Mind in Health and Illness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (2011).

Psychodynamic Psychiatry
|May 16, 2014
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