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Treating panic disorder: a psychotherapeutic case

Jason R Collison1, Terry L Correll

  • 1Dr. Collison is a Fourth Year Resident and Dr. Correll is Assistant Professor-Both from the Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
|April 7, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
Psychodynamicpanic disorderpsychotherapy

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