Re-storying women's depression: A material-discursive approach

Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-38

  Lafrance, Michelle N ^a   Stoppard, Janet M ^b  

^a St Thomas University   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

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EID: 84951289354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781452225869.n2     Document Type: Chapter

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