Telling stories: The health benefits of disclosure

Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 19-35

  Pennebaker, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203404515     Document Type: Chapter

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