title: Symbiotic recognition: a striving for acknowledgment of self.
authors.affiliation: California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego.
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Rucker
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Lombardi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003379:Countertransference; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012649:Self Concept; D014167:Transference, Psychology