The search for meaning in evolutionary goal-theory perspective and its clinical implications

The Human Quest for Meaning: Theories, Research, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-56

  Klinger, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203146286     Document Type: Chapter

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