A dialectic model of personality development and psychopathology: Recent contributions to understanding and treating depression

The Theory and Treatment of Depression: Towards a Dynamic Interactionism Model

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 137-162

  Blatt, Sidney J ^a   Shahar, Golan ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203763995     Document Type: Chapter

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