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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
Affiliation:
University of Maine, Department of Psychology, 301 Little Hall, Orono, ME 04469

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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1990

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