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The Nature of Interpretation: Intersubjectivity and the Third Position

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  1. Personality Disorders Institute, The New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, USA

    Otto F. Kernberg

  2. Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, USA

    Otto F. Kernberg

  3. Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA

    Otto F. Kernberg

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Kernberg, O.F. The Nature of Interpretation: Intersubjectivity and the Third Position. Am J Psychoanal 57, 297–312 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022463306053

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