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16 - The role of self during autobiographical remembering and psychopathology: evidence from philosophical, behavioral, neural, and cultural investigations

from Part IV - Autobiographical memory, identity, and psychological well-being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

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Lynn A. Watson  and
Barbara Dritschel
Edited by
Lynn A. Watson  and
Dorthe Berntsen
Lynn A. Watson
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Dorthe Berntsen
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory , pp. 335 - 358
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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