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15 - Specific Phobia

from Section 4 - Etiology and Phenomenology of Specific Anxiety Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

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Peter J. Castagna ,
Marie Nebel-Schwalm ,
Thompson E. Davis III  and
Peter Muris
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Bunmi O. Olatunji
Bunmi O. Olatunji
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Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 421 - 450
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