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Cultural impairment of our inner resources: An empirical inquiry

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Conditional love, a dominant feature of our culture, and its role in determining transference phenomena, will be dealt with in a subsequent paper.

Alexander Reid Martin, M.D., D.P.M. (London), is Training and Supervising Analyst, American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center; Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association.

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Martin, A.R. Cultural impairment of our inner resources: An empirical inquiry. Am J Psychoanal 32, 127–144 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01872508

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