Mindful awareness and self-directed neuroplasticity: Integrating psychospiritual and biological approaches to mental health with a focus on obsessive-compulsive disorder

The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 281-300

  Schwartz, Jeffrey M ^a   Gulliford, Elizabeth Z ^b   Stier, Jessica ^c   Thienemann, Margo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Westwood Institute for Anxiety Disorders   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315808635-22     Document Type: Chapter

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