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10 - Overgeneral autobiographical memories and their relationship to rumination

from Part III - Overgeneral autobiographical memories and their mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

By
Edward Watkins
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. 199 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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