Seeking nature: A contemporary therapeutic environment

Therapeutic Communities

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 228-244

  Burls, Ambra Pedretti ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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