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[The exploration of the depressive personality disorder]

Daniela Victor1, Matthias Backenstrass, Beate Herdtle

  • 1Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg.

Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie
|February 3, 2006
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