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Emotional Processing in the Treatment of Simple Phobia: A Comparison of Imaginal and In Vivo Exposure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Jeffrey E. Hecker
Jeffrey E. Hecker
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University of Maine, Department of Psychology, 301 Little Hall, Orono, ME 04469
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 21 - 34
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1990

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