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This paper, and the discussions by Dr. Horner and Dr. Fisher, were invited presentations, delivered at the October 31, 1981 meeting of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society on Intimacy in Group and Individual Psychotherapy.
Dr. Levenson is Faculty, training and supervisory analyst, William Alanson White Professor of Psychology, New York University, Graduate Studies, and author ofThe Fallacy of Understanding.
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Levenson, E.A. The rhetoric of intimacy. Group 5, 3–11 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01456607
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