"I can't stop pulling my hair!" Using numbing cream as an adjunct treatment for trichotillomania

Health and Social Work

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-158

  Dia, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 44849135494     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/33.2.155     Document Type: Article

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