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24 - Hypochondriasis

from Section 3 - Practical Aspects of Other Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2018

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Vladan Starcevic
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Leonardo F. Fontenelle  and
Murat Yücel
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Affiliation:
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Murat Yücel
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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A Transdiagnostic Approach to Obsessions, Compulsions and Related Phenomena , pp. 320 - 330
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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